i got in the business and one nine hundred seventy six and with my father he was in the banking business and decided there wasn't much future in that for him and he had good business sense and i had some musical abilit the oldest stein authorized steinway dealer in the state of florida there are only about sixty steinway dealers in america steinway has very stringent requirements what it takes to be piano forte and around the year seven thousand nine hundred there's been many changes in the piano since that time but steinway is the leader in that they've had over one hundred patents that are used in almost every piano today we have pianos at all levels we have used pianos that people trade in to get a better instrument that can start for less than one thousand dollars including tuning delivery warranty that sort of thing  so we we have a as i had said before we have a piano technician whose job is to make sure that every piano is warrant a ball used and especially know so that every instrument is going to be a good instrument or as good as it can be and that's what's one talk about used but even in new pianos they come in in many cases needing lots of tweaking to get them to their peak playing ability there's a lot of work in a piano so particularly in soundboard and they'd all come in exactly the same just because it's nature are dealing with a lot of wood and the wood at the soundboard is where the strings run over and that what is what determines the town and positioning of the strings and many other things but in all there are twelve thousand parts in a grand piano today this is a steinway actual model and this shows the customer how the action actually works after pressing the key all these parts come into play this part right here represents what this is where the stringer springs would be and this is what's called the damper fan is installing a player piano to make it move the keys then they went like the computers they went to big tapes mall tapes floppy disk cd wireless now they're wireless and so you can use any wireless device on this product there's no box on the front of the piano anymore you don't have an ugly thing on there showing you don't even know that it's a player and there's a library vast library of songs of just piano only your piano with a company or even now piano with a dell or frank sinatra saying so that's what it does and this is the i pad it has a free app that you download and so we can touch this first song here and this is the piano displaying by itself when you have like frank sinatra and this can be added to any piano worthy piano and we have the ready to go now or you can put purchase a pre owned piano from us and we can install this as you've seen before in our warehouse so in this one is  atra new york new york most people who play the piano on a regular basis tell you that they feel like it gives them a real sense of accomplishment and particular in older adults keep their brain sharp and reestablishes what they could do as they were young they can still do it today and still learn new songs and and new techniques for playing the piano oh yeah i love it you know it's it's always fun getting the most out of these pianos and and making people happy with something to hide the rest of your life there is a plethora of wonderful art here in town and it has good and bad points and the bad point is that there really aren't enough galleries to represent all the wonderful talent that's in town so we're very fortunate to be able to audiologist for thirty four years i had a private practice in ohio and so when my husband and i moved to this area i decided i wanted to do something completely different and i started investigating some different things and this happen dick come up and i just fell in love with the gallery and just the happy colorful vibe in here and so that just  there well the nice thing about owning a gallery is that i can assemble all the wonderful talent that we have here not only in sarasota but throughout the state of florida as well as a few artists from out of state  if i were an artist it would be very difficult to run the gallery because it is very time consuming and so i do what a lot of artists would rather not do because they want to spend their time creating their art  so that's where i come in i'm the facilitator so i gather the arts and look for gifts and schedule local artists to do classes and so i'm i'm the organize tours we have a original paintings we have wonderful glass whether it be fused glass thing glass hambone glass we have pottery several different lines of jewelry that has been very popular metal art soap handcrafted soap and spa products some wearable art and it's just a nice mixture so there's something for everyone it's a different type of gallery called an art and gift gallery you know anytime you have a collection of art it's a gallery but by naming it art and give gallery i just want people to feel more comfortable minutes more of a casual welcoming type of description for the shop a lot of artists that contact me each and every month and are looking for a gallery to represent them and basically what i'm looking for is a colorful happy  r or coastal beams that will just fit the vibe of the shop and has to be of high quality and hopefully unique in some way one aspect  of what i want to accomplish here is that customers come in and they can find things that they can't find at the mall what most of us will throw away a lot of artists will find good uses for so we have these very fun colorful plaques that are made from recycled roofing tiles and so she paints them very colorfully and has funny funny and inspirational sayings on them brendan could all lives in the we have an adjacent building behind this gallery that is a paint your own pottery studio we have a nice selection of best customers can come in and we have all the paints and supplies they need to create a masterpiece and then they leave the piece with us and we glaze and fire it and it's ready for pick up in a few days we have birthday parties scheduled in the patrie studio we've had bridal showers baby showers or even  just groups of ladies that want to bring a bottle of wine in and paint for a few hours in the afternoon so it's been a very relaxing nicette to vittie for for people to take some time out during the day in and get their arctic sun we also offer our classes out in the pottery studio there are several local artists in town who teach classes monthly it can vary by month but we always have an acrylic painting class basket weaving fu glass and we've had beading classes and most of the classes are from two to four hours so it's a nice afternoon no one has to commit to a several weeks class they'll learn something new and have fun creating a piece of art that they'll be able to take home with them the downtown village has an event monthly on the fourth friday from five to nine pm and we all the shops stay open late and we have music in the parking lot at food trucks will come we have some guest vendors that will set up in the parking lot and each shop does something little special that night whether b or d'oeuvres in our demos or one shop does complimentary henna tattoos  so there's all types of activities going on during that evening customers again just can't help but smile when they come in the shop with the colors in the artwork there's really not another shop just like this in the area almost every day someone will come in who says they drive by every day have always wanted to stop and then when they come in they i can't believe that you know what we have been here and they usually will say i'm going to come back i'm going to bring my friends in so that's the best kind of feedback to have and the word of mouth advertising is phenomenal