My First Piano Concert Was A Dud

The Saturday before Christmas was the annual Vig Village Christmas party.

We ate, we drank, we played games, we sang… all online.

And due to popular demand, I even performed at the piano.

Although I’ve only had two lessons, I learned how to play a simple version of “Silent Night.”

Was I nervous?

A little.

But I had been practicing a lot.

Now it was time to perform.

The metaphorical spotlight was on me.

I moved the laptop over to the piano.

The Zoom room was silent.

All 84 eyes were on me.

And then I began to play.

It was beautiful. Amazing. Not a single mistake.

“What talent!” I could hear my piano teacher saying.

Then one of the Vig Village members interrupted my concert.

“Mr. Vig, we can’t hear you.”

Evidently, the audio technology for Zoom is so good, it cancels out all sounds that aren’t your voice, including my piano.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is what we call in English, a dud.