| When I was younger my friend had a | | | | older people do when they do not want your help |
| grandmother who had a sheet music cabinet that | | | | in dealing with their business. We would have all |
| was made of black metal and allowed her to | | | | participated in giving a great gift to her in a |
| stack additional units on top of one another to | | | | minute, but she would never take us up on the |
| form a tower of music that sat in the corner of | | | | offer. |
| her living room. She had a beautiful baby grand | | | | When she passed on and my friend inherited her |
| piano that was also black that she would play any | | | | grandmother's piano and music collection we |
| time that one of us would ask her to. She | | | | purchased a new sheet music cabinet to exactly |
| catalogued the music as best she could in | | | | match the finish on the baby grand piano. A few |
| alphabetic order but the pieces she wanted to find | | | | weekends were spent sorting and then sorting |
| were invariably missing when it came time to find | | | | again while we went through all of the old sheet |
| them. The result of many years of pulling music | | | | music and put them back in an order that we |
| out of a bin, then mistakenly placing it back into | | | | could easily recall when a desire to play a piece |
| another had taken its toll on her music collection. | | | | came upon us. |
| She loved the collection but it was in complete | | | | When comparing the old metal cabinet with the |
| disarray. | | | | new wood unit, the relatively low expense |
| The second issue her sheet music cabinet had | | | | required to significantly upgrade the duet of the |
| was that it was metal and had an unkempt | | | | piano and the sheet music cabinet was an |
| appearance. While she was content with the look | | | | investment she would have made time and again. |
| of the cabinet, we had often asked her if she | | | | The piano and sheet music cabinet duet is the |
| would like for us to chip in and get a new one to | | | | centerpiece of her living room today. |
| replace her old one. Each time we asked she | | | | Grandmother would be proud to know her |
| gracefully turned us down, much the way elegant | | | | collection is being so well taken care of. |