The Piano Lesson Act 1

The piano was originally given as a gift to

• Joel Nolander's wife

• Cleotha

• Berniece and Boy Willie's great grandmother

• Miss Ophelia Sutter

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The carvings on the piano were done by

• Boy Willie and Berniece's great grandfather

• Mama Berniece

• Mr. Nolander

• Mama Ola

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They talk to you where the Yellow Dog crosses the Southern

• Doaker and Wining Boy

• Mr. Nolander and Mr. Sutter

• The Ghosts of the Yellow Dog

• The Charles family's ancestors

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The person who gave his life for the piano

• Boy Charles

• Mama Ola

• Wining boy

• Ed Saunders

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The piano was stolen from Sutter on

• Christmas Eve

• Labor Day

• Fourth of July

• Thanksgiving Day

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Polished the piano "with her tears for seventeen years"

• Berniece

• Mama Ola

• Esther

• Coreen

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Said "If I see Sutter's ghost I'll be on the first thing I find that got wheels on it."

• Boy Willie

• Doaker

• Wining Boy

• Avery

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Said "She need to go out here and let one of these fellows grab a whole handful of whatever she got. She act like it done got precious.

• Boy Willie

• Doaker

• Wining Boy

• Avery

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Said "I used to thank the Lord. Many a night I sat and looked out over my life. Said, well, I had Cleotha."

• Boy Willie

• Doaker

• Lymon

• Wining Boy

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Said "I went down there and right there where them two railroads cross each other ... I stood right there on that spot and called out their names. They talk back to you too."

• Wining Boy

• Doaker

• Lymon

• Avery

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