The other week I went to a pizza party in founders with Phyllis Chen and other kids part of the Writing and the Arts Living Learning Community. We all ate briefly and put our names into a raffle to see if we could win a prize. Unfortunately for me, or any of my friends for the matter, we did not win anything at all. I wasn’t too upset about it though. After a few slices of pizza and some lemonade, we went back to our rooms until it was time to watch Phyllis play.
Once it was time, we all headed over to see how a woman of Phyllis’ size could play a supposed “toy piano” and what a “toy piano” looked like. I mean I was ready to see a tiny red piano with rainbow keys that glow whenever keys were pushed. Or some piano made of plastic that sounded like a Fischer Price toy. But when I got there, I was surprised. These pianos were legit. They actually looked like a piano… just shrunken down to the size an American Girl Doll could use. It was kind of hilarious watching her sit down on the floor in front of the little pianos with her little music stand and start to rock out like it was no big deal. She was really good too which was nice… not that I didn’t expect for her to be a magnificent piano player or anything of that matter. It is just the idea of a full grown woman playing toy pianos and making full beautiful music out of such a strange situation is kind of strange to wrap your head around. I really enjoyed watching it though. It was one of those things that was so peculiar that you cant take your eyes off of it no matter how hard you try. I guess the one thing I wondered the whole time is if it is hard for her to fit her hands on such tiny keys. The keys have to be small if the piano is that small… maybe she just has small hands. Overall it was a great performance and an interesting concept
