Turtle Music Studio

In May 1655, Bartolomeo Cristofori, the inventor of the piano, was born in Padua, Italy.

“I can't remember myself as having particular talent for music before the age of ten. My parents were not particularly musical; and since I was the oldest child, I had no older brother or sister to introduce me to music. We didn't even have a piano in our house.
Then one day, out of the blue, an old upright piano arrived.... I was ten years old that day when my life changed. I fell in love with the piano, and it loved me back. We've been happily married ever since.”

-Leonard Bernstein, 1949

📸 Leonard Bernstein at the piano in 1936. Courtesy of Yale University Press

Happy Thanksgiving!