The Piano

Rosemary Border

Oxford Bookworms LibraryLevel 2

A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by Rosemary Border.

One day, a farmer tells a farm boy to take everything out of an old building and throw it away. 'It's all rubbish,' he says.

In the middle of all the rubbish, the boy finds a beautiful old piano. He has never played before, but now, when his fingers touch the piano, he begins to play. He closes his eyes and the music comes to him – and the music moves his fingers.

When he opens his eyes again, he knows that his life is changed for ever…

ROSEMARY BORDER

The Piano

THE PIANO

Where does music come from? Is it something that you learn? Or is it simply given to you – and nobody knows where it comes from?

The young boy in this story is not good at school. He is not good at learning words or numbers. He likes to sing with the other boys and girls; but he is not good at singing. He does not get the first job that he tries to get. He is a nice boy, but he is not good at anything special.

And then he finds a piano. He also finds that he can play the piano. So, perhaps we can say that he does not find music, but that music finds him.

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