We decided which piano to get today. My family and Robert E., my piano teacher, went down to Findlay again. We all liked the Sohmers the best but it was also the most expensive. The Kawai sounded all right, but it had a rather stiff touch. The Baldwin was a nice touch, a nice tone and sound, and was only $1600. The Baldwin sounded better than the Kawai, so we narrowed it down between the Sohmers and the Baldwin. The Sohmers was a better piano, in all respects, but it would cost $2000. And the difference between the two wasn't worth $400, considering how much we had. So we're getting the Baldwin. It is a good piano, and should last. It's going to arrive at our house Wednesday.
Today Tim D. should have come home. I haven't been to his house because I don't know his plane leaves, and I've been busy all day. Tomorrow after class I'll go over to his house.
Today, weather-wise, was an unusual day. It rained so much in the afternoon that the sewers overflowed into basements and onto the streets. Parts of Wooster street were totally submerged under 6 inches of water. A whole block of Clough street was turned into a lake. S. Prospect also flooded from the intersection of Clough and Prospect down to Washington st. Our basement has about 10 inches of water in it. My comic books and Mad magazines are totally submerged. Our manx cat, Bonnie, was trapped on the top of the bed down there. We had to float a board to her to climb back on the stairs with and get out of the basement. It's going to take a while to clean out our basement.
[2008: my parents still have the Baldwin piano. Also, the flood explains what happened to my collection of comics and Mads. Also, the rain was from Hurricane Bob; see Wikipedia.]
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