# My Wife is playing the piano. I am happy. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 14, 2013, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-is-playing-the-piano-i-am-happy/647127 "2013-01-14T03:14:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![toofs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4491bb/32.png) [@toofs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toofs)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-is-playing-the-piano-i-am-happy/647127/1 "2013-01-14T03:14:49Z")
I am in the office of our house catching up on some things. My lovely wife is right now playing Phil Collins’ A Groovy Kind of Love on her piano in the living room. I am happy. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-is-playing-the-piano-i-am-happy/647127/2 "2013-01-14T03:45:02Z")
Cool story bro Thanks for sharing May the force be with you. Always. ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-is-playing-the-piano-i-am-happy/647127/3 "2013-01-14T05:25:59Z")
The only time I’ve lived in a house with a piano was with my aunt and uncle. My aunt is amazing. At that time she worked full time, volunteered a crazy amount with church and civic groups, besides keeping a home running (and running beautifully). Every once in a while she’d take a break and play the piano. Not rehearsing to accompany anyone, or hymns for church- just playing for her own enjoyment. It didn’t happen often but I loved when it did. That’s what your thread made me think of and I hadn’t for a while, so thank you for that. ---
**Author:** ![Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sticks_and_scones/32/16951_2.png) [@Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sticks_and_Scones)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-is-playing-the-piano-i-am-happy/647127/4 "2013-01-14T11:35:13Z")
Sounds like a beautiful day. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-is-playing-the-piano-i-am-happy/647127/5 "2013-01-14T12:39:25Z")
Audio or it didn’t happen. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-is-playing-the-piano-i-am-happy/647127/6 "2013-01-14T13:37:23Z")
She’s going to be annoyed if she sees this thread and she was actually playing Clementi’s Sonatina in G. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-is-playing-the-piano-i-am-happy/647127/7 "2013-01-14T16:35:38Z")
I wish I could play piano. I’ve played on and off through the years, but never had a piano of my own. Planning to buy an electric one soon. Got my heart set on a certain electric one at the local store. ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-is-playing-the-piano-i-am-happy/647127/8 "2013-01-14T19:28:50Z")
I take a great joy in sitting by the fire with my dog while my kids practice. Piano, sax, guitar, recorder, singing - it can get pretty cacophonous around our place, but I love it. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-is-playing-the-piano-i-am-happy/647127/9 "2013-01-14T20:17:35Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > I take a great joy in sitting by the fire with my dog while my kids practice. Piano, sax, guitar, recorder, singing - it can get pretty cacophonous around our place, but I love it. I studied music in college (clarinet), and I used to like to walk by the practice rooms and hear all the people practicing at the same time. I’m weird…so what. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-is-playing-the-piano-i-am-happy/647127/10 "2013-01-14T20:54:11Z")
toofs - please be sure to tell her that. I often feel guilty when I play, assuming that I’m annoying everyone in the zipcode. Glad you are having a lovely day! ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-is-playing-the-piano-i-am-happy/647127/11 "2013-01-14T23:54:50Z")
I wish I had a real piano. All I have set up is a crummy plastic Yamacasio whatever one that is a poor substitute. ---
**Author:** ![toofs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4491bb/32.png) [@toofs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toofs)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-wife-is-playing-the-piano-i-am-happy/647127/12 "2013-01-15T06:41:55Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > toofs - please be sure to tell her that. I often feel guilty when I play, assuming that I’m annoying everyone in the zipcode. > > Glad you are having a lovely day! I like to lay on the floor and watch her feet while she plays. Sometimes, but not always, she knows I am there on the floor, listening, watching. She enjoys playing Johann Strauss, but she will play Tchaikovsky for me if she knows I am there. She sort of hums and sings to some modern songs, like a subconscious thing she isn’t really aware she is doing. I find it mesmerizing to watch this graceful woman who warmly calls me ‘husband’ fill our home with music and beauty. I am away for the week. Duty calls. No piano feet for me tonight.