Album Notes

Album Description
Solo piano. "Parlor Piano" recreates what might have been a typical evening's entertainment in Yosemite's Wawona Hotel, perhaps 80 years ago. Recorded on the 1906 Kanabe parlor grand in Yosemite's historic Wawona Hotel.

From the Artist
In the summer of 1882, Yosemite artist Thomas Hill brought his seventeen year old daughter, Estella, to Big Tree Station (yet to be renamed the "Wawona Hotel"). There she met John Washburn (one of the four brothers who founded the hotel in 1879); they married in 1885 and moved into the front bedroom which is separated from the hotel lobby by a small parlor. Estella’s upright piano stood against the wall that backs one of the lobby fireplaces, and she would play and sing for friends and guests; her favorite was "Love’s Old Sweet Song."