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My mother Elizabeth Ivey Brubeck was a pianist who studied with Dame Myra Hess and Tobias Matthey. As a child in California I used to listen to her play Chopin.

My aunt played the piano and I used to sit and listen to it.

You think it matters to the kids whether they're learning to play on a Steinway or a normal piano?

My grandmother played the piano, and I used to toddle over there and pick out little things that sounded good to me.

My dad was a musician who went to Berklee, and he made me learn piano when I was five.

My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.

But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.

Baldwin is sort of getting to be a bit funny. I don't know what happened, but a few years ago they suddenly went bankrupt and Gibson bought the whole outfit. Since then they haven't seemed to be doing an awfully good job of providing pianos.

For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again.