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Charlie's Law
Date: 10/2/2014, Categories: Seduction, Author: henrygatewood, Rating: 14, Source: LushStories
It was one of those gigs where the music went straight from my eyes to my fingers with almost no intervention from my brain. Simple classical pieces and the occasional bit of mild, inoffensive jazz - nothing to capture the imagination, at least for the performer. To the elegantly dressed punters at the Paragon Club, SW1, it was merely a pleasant background tinkling sound to accompany their evenings. The piano I was playing looked fabulously expensive, and in a sense it was. It was the body of a Steinway grand - well suited to the not-quite-ostentatious opulence of the Club’s main room - and it still contained the original harp and strings, dampened with an old rug under the lid. In what I considered a grievous act of vandalism the hammers and keys had been removed to make way for a rather cheap-feeling digital piano - and that was what I was actually playing. Most of the candle-lit tables scattered around the huge space were occupied by couples, of course, it being Valentine’s Day. In the brief pauses between tunes I glanced around the place, around the people, and wondered what dreadful occupations paid them the money to eat here. There were no prices on the menu, but the portions I saw the stiff-backed waiters carry past my little stage were so small and delicately arranged that they must have been expensive. I played on, daydreaming. There was a bebop/jazz guitarist in the early 20th Century named Charlie Christian, and according to legend he once made a comment which ...