Remember early last week I wrote the piano I purchased was backordered for months?
Well, good news: it has since arrived safe and sound! I guess once they freed that ship blocking the Suez Canal, things do indeed move on pretty quickly!
Jokes aside, Guitar Center - from whom I bought the keyboard - really threw me for a loop. One day the order status read the Yamaha CP88 is backordered, the next day I get an email saying it has shipped via UPS. And it is due to arrive the very next day! I had to scrambled to tell my housemate to be on a lookout for a 55 pound package, lest a porch pirate runs away with a piano that costs more than two months’ rent.
Right, so I’ve got an intensely expensive - for my very low skin level - piano unexpectedly sitting at home. Because I did not think it would come so quickly, I don’t have any of the other stuff that needs to go along with it. So this weekend I bought a sturdy stand for the keyboard, and also ordered a pair of headphones. The CP88 is a stage piano, which like an electric guitar needs an external audio source to function. There aren’t any built-in speakers. For the sake of my housemates, I opted for headphones instead.
I also decided on an online piano course: Piano Marvel. Amongst its competitors, Piano Marvel seems most comprehensively focused on classical piano teaching, heavy on theory and sight-reading. It’s just a matter of connecting the CP88 to my MacBook Pro via a USB cable. Like with Korean, I was always going to self-teach piano. Progress will undoubtedly be slower comparative to hiring an actual teacher, but alone is how I like to roll in life.
I can’t wait to get started. The headphones cannot get here quick enough from Amazon.
It is a beauty!