The Piano

"He came to Canada to work with his uncle Theodore making pianos, only to strike out on his own to build what he thought would be a superior piano," [David Vuckson] told us. "His new piano was built like the proverbial battleship, and Mr. [Gerhard Heintzman] took the novel approach of adding a metal bridge to enhance rather than dampen the harmonic seventh." "I learned to play on a Bell back home in Ontario, so I decided to check out the old piano," recalls David. "I thought, 'Hey, it has the same scroll work as mom's old piano. And it had nicks and scrapes in the same places ours did.'" David bought the piano and donated it to St. Andrew's, recommending that the church give its spare piano, the Heintzman, to West Shore. And so David's boyhood Bell piano sits in St. Andrew's social suite as a reminder both of the lengths God will go, and that He will use the language you know best to remind you where home is.