Piano Lessons

Today seemed like a good day to start piano lessons. The piano is dreadfully out of tune, but I do like to play it on occasion, and Hannah likes it. So today I thought Hannah seemed big enough to start learning to play herself. I sat her next to me and held on to her with one hand while playing the right hand part of Hannah's psalm (8B) and singing it. Hannah sort of sang "ya la ba" type lyrics along with me. Then I helped her use her index finger to play a scale while singing "Do Re Mi" to her. After a few times through that, I let her play a little by herself, but no banging. She seemed to grasp the no banging rule pretty well and looked pleased as punch with herself as you can see from the picture above. Those of you who actually teach music lessons will doubtless tell me that I'm going about this all wrong, but it really was fun!