Toccata

Unwanted instrument -

You make me see the room, Dawnj!

evocative

Descriptions and we'll written,

very much like how you offset the contrasts, play them off against eachother... love your description of the music and curled music sheets

some lovely language used throughout, musical in their own right

Very nice indeed

We are carried through by the lovely and well structured words to believe in your two sorrowful alternatives.

Logic does not intrude and tell us it could also have been the resented imposition by parents with social aspirations on a child with no love for music or hard work.

I am not trying to undercut the mythic creation - I am saying how well it has been done.

I like Cleardaynow's take, not so much because it may be correct, rather it addresses the piano as an allegory for any number of matters. Nicely done.