My mom plays piano, and she learned to play before they had a piano at home in Cape Breton. Before Mom's family had a piano in Cape Breton, she learned to play the rhythms on a piece of board, and the fiddlers would all congregate to play on the cold winter's evenings and Mom would be banging on this board, so when they bought a piano, they bought it in Toronto and had it taken by train and brought in on a horse, a horse and sleigh to the house.
제 어머니도 피아노를 치시는데 제 어머니는 어렸을때 집에 피아노가 없어서 널판지에 피아노 건반을 그려 놓고 피아노를 치고 그 주위에 사람들이 모여 바이올린을 켜며 추운 겨울 저녁을 보내곤 했는데 제 할머니와 할아버지가 동네에서 처음으로 피아노를 사셨는데, 피아노는 토론토에서 기차를 타고, 마지막에 집까지는 말이 끄는 썰매로