Book 2: Chapter 37: Side story: ... of Light and Darkness spreading throughout the royal city Part 1
The secondary residence of the Rosenberg marquis household was located in the royal city, Londobell. This mansion Lady Sophia lived in was very grand and the young Lady was provided with many rooms that she could take her lessons in.
In the early morning of a certain day off from school, a new instrument—a grand piano—was brought into one of these aforementioned rooms.
Since pianos were common in my previous world, they were even depicted in the ending stills of “Espressivo of Light and Darkness”. However, at the time when I regained my memories of my previous world, pianos didn’t exist in this kingdom.
Thus, since I anticipated that the piano would either soon come into existence or perhaps be brought in from another country, I conducted a search for this new instrument as much as I was allowed to as an exclusive butler. And so, it became apparent that an instrument that looked like an organ but was a completely different musical instrument was in the process of being spread around a neighboring country. I immediately consulted this with Master Grave. I told him that a new instrument that was very suitable for Lady Sophia, had appeared in a neighboring country.
Surely, in order to obtain the technology of the neighboring country, considerable compensation was required, but Master Grave acted fast. He immediately dispatched a number of craftsmen and had them learn the technology of manufacturing a piano. These craftsmen returned roughly a year later and at last, the grand piano was made.
After its installation was finished, the craftsmen went on to tune it. Since besides them, there was no one else in this kingdom who had an understanding of a piano’s structure, they were the only ones who could tune it as well. It was obvious that if Lady Sophia were to learn to play the piano, its popularity would rise explosively. We should proceed with nurturing these craftsmen further while we still could.
“We’re finished with the tuning.”
“Thank you for your hard work. I’m sure Master Grave will be very pleased as well.”
“We’re not worthy of such praise! And, we are yet to explain how to play the ‘piano’. Although it looks just like a pipe organ, it is, in fact, a completely different instrument.”