My mom plays piano, and she learned to play before they had a piano at home in Cape Breton. Before Mom's family had a piano in Cape Breton, she learned to play the rhythms on a piece of board, to play on the cold winter's evenings and Mom would be banging on this board, so when they bought a piano, they bought it in Toronto and had it taken by train and brought in on a horse,
我妈妈会弹钢琴， 当时她在布雷顿角的家里还没有钢琴 她就已经学会怎么弹了。 没有钢琴的时候，她用一块板子 学习节奏， 很多小提琴手冬天寒冷的晚上 都会聚在一起演奏 我妈妈就会在板子上敲打， 后来他们在多伦多 买了一架真的钢琴， 然而先用火车再用马拉雪橇