On the Inside

I forgot to bring my guitar to music class at the preschool this week, so it made a perfect day for talking about the piano. I gathered ten bouncy four and five-years olds around the church basement console and gave them a keyboard overview. Then I tapped the soundboard and said, "Does anyone know what is inside a piano?"

Andy, a four-year-old class clown who routinely grins and gives his peers purposeful sideways glances in order to make them giggle, raised his hand. This time, though, he wasn't trying to make his buddies laugh. He tilted his head and, teeming with sincerity, said, hopefully, "Water?"