When automatic pianos came to Luddston Kilmer Watts had to find a new job He had spent years teaching people the intricacies of fingering the ins and outs of sonatas and the importance of heart and soul But with these newfangled machines you could push a button and the piano would do the playing for you five times the sound without a second wasted on practice
Kilmer didn't know what else he was good at but had always wondered what went on inside the poem factory Weren't poems made by hand
