The Zachariah
family was leaving town after having spent a lifetime in Jamshedpur. Their 3
sons Errol, Ian and Sam had finished school and already gone to college.
The couple,
Moss and Ruby Zachariah, decided to pack up and leave Jamshedpur. However, the
family piano, a German built Blüthner, was too heavy to take with them and had to
be left behind.
So in 1964
the family gifted this sonorous, acoustic cottage piano to the up and coming
Little Flower School in Telco.
This stately,
warm sounding piano served to train many students who will testify about its
outstanding duty to them.
Almost 60
years later the Symphony School of Music, Jamshedpur, received an urgent
message from the principal of Little Flower School that they needed a piano
tuner for two instruments. They called a piano tuner who tuned one and then was
sent up to have a look at the other lying on the first floor. He was distressed
since it needed a lot of material and would be very expensive to restore.
IN
DESPERATION the Principal called up the Symphony School. The agreed to take it
away and get it restored at the Boulevard Hotel.
The Story Continues
The children
of the Zachariah family, now settled in the UK, got nostalgic about their home
city. Sam, now a retired surgeon in London, decided to visit Jamshedpur and
stay at the Boulevard Hotel.
Heritage
He, along
with his elder brother Ian, hosted a dinner at the ‘Penthouse’ in the Boulevard
Hotel. One of the guests had a son who is a student at the Symphony School and
he offered to play ‘Fϋr Elise’. While he was playing, Ian approached
the piano, recognised the sound, and was stunned. "This is the piano my
mother gifted to Little Flower School. I am reconnected to my family heirloom,
after 60 years !" He almost wept to see this long lost heirloom.
The Boulevard
Hotel is proud to add one more legacy piece belonging to this outstanding family
to our heritage property.
