The piano, I now know, weighs 132 pounds. I took a screwdriver to it to separate it from its cabinet, then when I lifted it off, I was like ofux that’s heavy.
So I did this thing no decent electric piano owner would do. I carefully rotated it down the church stairs instead of carrying it, sort of like an awkward katamari. I put it on its side, then upside down, then up on its other side, then right side up. It got the job done without any impact on the piano or my body.
But then my failure to bring a tape measure came into play. I imagined sitting the actual piano part like a person in the front passenger seat of my car, and then putting the cabinet pieces in the trunk. It was way too big for that.
There was a tense moment in which I thought that the piano wouldn’t fit and that I’d have to move it back up the church stairs, all scratched up now.
After removing the child seat from the back seat, the piano mostly fit, but not enough to shut the door. I then realized I could move the front seats up and angle them forward. With that, I was able to angle the piano in and fit the cabinet parts back there, too.
It went fast, and I thought I’d get back home in plenty of time for my work meeting. Then, a preacher from the church came out and saw me.
We had a friendly chat about the piano and the piano they have now and how I got this piano into my small car. Then, he maneuvered into whether or not I went to church and if I’d like to go to this one.
Given that an electric piano with weighted keys is hundreds of dollars at a minimum, I thought fair is fair, and I listened. I complimented the sign on the church that said they’d send mail for people and contrasted it with Falwell, et al, and he agreed they were not helping to spread the Word. (I figured this would be a safe conversational bet in Cambridge.) He talked about how Billy Graham said 20% of people in church are actual believers and then quoted some scripture at me.
I said something like it sounds like you’re doing good things here and said I might check out their web site and got away.
At home, Katt and I finished moving the parts up into our apartment just in time for my first meeting of the day.