The instrument Carrie Ferguson grew up playing was an enormous upright, chocolate-brown (to put it politely) piano inherited from the family of one of her father’s third-grade students. This piano, built from the parts of several old pianos by students in a local instrument building workshop, had a darkly booming, slightly furry quality to it, not unlike the weather outside in her home town of Arcata on the North Coast of California.

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