I do know a certain amount about harmony already; I have been mugging it up for the last three years.

But I must do something as well as learn something, and, as I told you, I'm going to take up the piano seriously." Falbe was not attending particularly.
"A fine instrument, the piano," he remarked.

"There is certainly something to be done with a piano, if you know how to do it.

I can strum a bit myself.

Some keys are harder than others--the black notes." "Yes; what of the black notes ?" asked Michael.
"Oh! they're black.