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Neon Krathong

The Paper Keyboard

Chapter 10 · free to read

She did not shout and she did not forbid it. She simply put the keyboard in the car and drove it to the school she teaches at, where it would be, she said, more useful.

Eighty-eight of them. It took him four hours and he got the octave spacing right to the millimetre, because he had measured the real one every day of his life.

There was no sound at all. He practised the piece nine times that night and heard every note of it.

He kept the paper one. He said it was in case the real one went away again. Arthit said nothing about that at all, which was, for Arthit, an enormous amount of tact.

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