The Virtual "Grand Piano" Forum

Lexie Ahrens set up, run and owned the “Grand Piano”, a legendary “All Classical Music” coffee house and restaurant at 1672 Haight Street in San Francisco, California, at the heart of where the Flower Power (“Hippy”) movement of the early 1960’s started. In the middle of this huge restaurant stood a very large grand piano with a lock on it. Only customers who could play very well were allowed to play on it. Otherwise there was classical music through loud speakers on a pleasant volume so that one could have conversations without needing to raise one”s voice.