![]() But much like COVID has encouraged us to seek out the silver linings, even with Zoom piano lessons there have been obvious benefits. Elizabeth,” as she is affectionately called in our home, easily transitioned to online learning. Prone to find the positive in everything, I wasn’t surprised that “Ms. So, I decided to try it-and I’ve been really pleased.” “I thought, oh, good grief-I cannot imagine! But I had some experience FaceTiming my grandchildren, trying to coach them or encouraging them to play. But our owner-operator, Kevin, contacted his teachers from the studio and encouraged us to think about Zoom or online lessons, and try to continue with our students.”īarmann, who has taught a side-by-side model for decades, initially chuckled at the task of restructuring for online. “We were quite surprised when we were facing COVID and we were in lockdown,” she explains. Ever working for her students and willing to try something new, Barmann moved her piano lessons to an online model shortly after quarantine began. Thanks to the Evergreen School of Music, my daughters were able to continue their piano lessons with Elizabeth Barmann, soft-spoken and full of grace and hope and everything else you want a piano teacher to be. We did our best to recreate church and school and work on a computer screen-but what about the little things, the extracurriculars that infuse life with interest and meaning? It’s been more than a year ago now that COVID went and wrecked all of our plans, from the biggest to the smallest.
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