The floor piano. As you can see we needed to raise the piano to keep the sharp hooves off of it. The boys quite like the sounds that come out of this thing.
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Yesterday I opened the gate of the very small paddock (sort of a round pen) attached to the lower barn to bring in Zelador and Zeloso so we could take them up to the arena to ride, play the piano …
We placed a protective cover on one of the floor pianos (which is now attached to a firm backing, a ¾ inch plywood board) and put the floor piano at nose height in the arena. It’s sitting on two stacks …
Lately we’ve been working on Albert Ostermaier’s method for teaching the piaffe which is done in a stall. Along with this I’ve spent a few minutes doing the first three steps of Frank Bell’s Seven Step Safety System in the …
The other evening we had a group ride in the arena. Five people on their horses. We’re doing this so that at some future date we can create a quadrille.
After the ride I asked an observer, Barbara McKnight (Ciara’s …
During the earthquake Wednesday we were privileged to have Pierre, a drummer, come to Winsong Farm to play with the horses. Two other people, Ann and Gabby, were here to help. We began the session with Zelador.
We weren’t exactly …
James, a man from Texas that Bill works with, came to the farm. James was here in October and saw us practicing for the Hula-Hoop routine. His wife has a few horses. Today he watched Zelador do tricks and liberty …
