When reading, please remember that Tegucigalpa is a large city with more than 1,000,000 people.
Number One: Find a bus driver and ask for help in locating all available stores that might possibly have anything related to music; specifically pianos.
Number Two: At the first tienda (store) notice the lone small keyboard on display and quickly ask to be driven to the next place.
Number Three: Al la segundo tienda, be grateful for the wide array of guitars and sound systems as you walk to the edge of the store to find the keyboards.
Number Four: You see two of worth. Solomente uno en todo el tienda tiene "weighted keys"; es un Roland, and it's a keyboard so you have to buy a stand and a seat and a pedal and an amp to accomany it. On el oltra mano (the other hand), there is a rather nice clavanova type Yamaha teclado (keyboard). However, it doesn't have weighted keys. Lo siento; you lose.
Number Five: While speaking with the store worker you find out that a while back they sold an upright piano. All the Hondurans with you seem very surprized; it's very rare for a piano to be sold, much less seen.
Number Six: Find out that the third store is very much like the first.
Number Seven: Find out that the main keyboard for la iglesia de CEAD (the church here) was bought in the US and then flown back into Honduras.
Number Eight: Be satisfied in this, and then decide to wait and do the same thing once you go back to the states in Deciembre.
Smile; your eight simple steps in shopping for a piano in Honduras have been completed!
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6 comments:
I'll deffinatly have to keep those steps in mind if I am ever in need of a piano in Hondorus.
As should everyone...
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You should ahve had your mother with you. She would have found one and it would have been on clearance!! HA! Just kidding. That's a bummer that you can't have a piano now. I guess you got to see more of the city on your little trek. Tell us more about the city.
So, I have an idea about getting you a piano/keyboard...well, a keyboard really. See if it would be cost effective to buy a keyboard in Hondorus and then buy the amp and all that stuff in the states and carry it in as "carry-on" next time you come to the states and go back.
Hey, I miss you. I'm pumped that you are having so many cool experiences! Oh, and you rock. That said...Good luck finding a piano.
Love ya brother!!!!
Explain step #4. Did the Roland claim to have weighted keys that really were not? I agree with gwn, we ought to be able to assemble some electronics for you. Let's send Mom on a clearance sale hunt. Oh, are Honduran electrical plugs like standard US plugs? Lovin' hearin' all the news. You must be really busy this weekend--you haven't posted. Grampa enjoyed your post. When he finds the 'comment' button, watch out!
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