Dorothy Motto performs Yanni, live, on Acoustic Grand RH / Yamaha Ensemble LH

Many of the retirement residences we visited had existing acoustic pianos and in-house organs and the activity directors who hired us as well as the residents were always doubly-amazed when we could perform on "their" instruments. In this particular case, the white grand piano was in pretty good shape so I set the tuning on the Yamaha E-433 that we bought in late 2013 to match the grand and Dorothy set up the orchestrations to match a medley of Yanni tunes in 2016 at Dorothy's age 81(!) and my 59.--Rick in 2025 @ 68. [MP3 audio only] [Video download as MP4]

Dorothy is leaning left here so her right hand can reach
the keyboard to play a section of the piece using
the orchestral strings. She'll go back to the piano momentarily.

The Yamaha E-422 is seen with two sets of lights on
the music rack. Dorothy is reaching up to turn a page.
Acoustic pianos have very high music racks which
have always been difficult to work with. A wheel
of the dolly I used to cart equipment in and out is
seen in the foreground.

I always had to hide the camera since it would cause concern if
I caught actual residents on camera, a legalistic privacy concern in
2016 in Arizona... even in public spaces. I would have been better
off with a dual mic audio recording system only with still pics .