18-year-old Helena Muffly wrote exactly 100 years ago today:
Friday, November 14, 1913: My music teacher didn’t think, or I mean she did think, that I hadn’t practiced my lesson any too much. It didn’t surprise me any for I didn’t put much work on it.
Her middle-aged granddaughter’s comments 100 years later:
I wonder if this old cartoon would have resonated with Grandma . . . or with her parents.
I am fairly sure your grandmother would have agreed with that cartoon. Have you mentioned how much a piano lesson cost 100 years ago? I was wondering if Helena spent some of her money on lessons.
hmm. . .I have no idea how much piano lessons cost back then. It would be really interesting to know.
Maybe the lessons were paid for in kind; a jug of cream or a pound of butter for one lesson 🙂
Could be.
Grandma’s entry – and the cartoon -made me smile today!
I’m glad you enjoyed it.
You can’t pull one over on your music teacher. My husband is a band director and he thinks that every day!
I wonder why students think they can pull the wool over their teachers’ eyes.
This is so funny 🙂 Annie
Nothing is fun if you’re doing it because you have to do it!
How true!
My teacher was pretty sure that I didn’t even LOOK at a piano between lessons. Too true.
🙂
Pretty to tell. I practiced and then I didn’t.
So did I. 🙂
I think it’s amazing you found that particular cartoon to put with this diary entry. Poor your grandmother, but I can wholeheartedly identify.
I came across the cartoon awhile ago, and was just waiting for an appropriate day to use it. 🙂
I hope she doesn’t give up. Maybe with winter coming she’ll have more time, and the desire to practice.
I also wish that it would seem like she enjoyed the piano more.
Love the cartoon… Miss Muffly and I share the same affliction 🙄
So did I when I took piano lessons.
Too funny. The patient woman assigned to teach me piano at Oregon College of Education would have laughed — or cried — over this one.
Lol… and she gets paid for work right?