When you get a gift wrapped in music...

This morning the postman rang the bell. We all just woke up, and I was preparing the coffee in the kitchen when he brought us the package. My sister mentioned that she would send a little gift to my son for Christmas. Just taken out from the big envelope - the wrapping paper made me happy!!

My son got the gift - a Christmas pyjama, one box of cookies and another Christmas card that will go into my collection. There she wrote that the goodies were for the "little baby". 😂 (for those who don't know - my son is seventeen but it was my sister having fun calling him baby)

The wrapping paper was mine!!!

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You are laughing?

Well, it's fine. I would also laugh if I saw that someone was so happy and excited about a simple piece of paper in which a gift was wrapped.

But it was not a simple piece of paper! No. It was a wrapping paper with musical notes and I ran to the piano to play the tune written there...

The unfortunate thing - or we can see it as a great turn - was that the tune, written in that way didn't make sense. There were parts, then after a few measures it was interrupted by a different part that doesn't go there. It was a total mess!

Challenge accepted. I would say it to the people who made this silliness, to print parts of the song, which was We Wish You a Merry Christmas, in that incoherent way. Or the designer of the wrapping paper just didn't know... Or didn't care... Or didn't have the licence to print the song correctly... I don't know. There are many possibilities, but for a musician, it can't stay that way. Moreover, for a musician on vacation!

Ta-da!

The whole size of the paper, after removing the transparent duct tape:

The work started. I got to read the little parts and play but as I said, every few measures the tune was interrupted by a part that didn't fit. It sounded bad and weird, so I was searching for the part that would make the continuation. Marked the parts and the order with a marker pen and painted them with highlighters (of different colours). Here we have marked four different parts of the tune, and just matching them in the right order makes sense.

It has been a while since I recorded something on the piano... So if you like to see how I was searching for the parts you can watch the video. If you want to skip that part, no worries, just scroll to the middle of the video (more or less, ok, I checked, it is at 00:56 where it starts in real) and there you can hear this Christmas carol, We Wish You a Merry Christmas. Also, if you don't want to hear it at all, feel free to skip the entire video 😉.

Either way, I wish you the same as this wrapping paper did in the end, a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! 🍾