Dick Papalia performs on a float at the Ottawa SuperEX parade in the early 1970s. His Bank Street business is celebrating its 50th anniversary. (Submitted)
CBC News
Posted: Feb 19, 2018 6:59 AM ET Last Updated: Feb 19, 2018 9:43 AM ET
After 50 years and three generations, the Papalia family is still on top of Ottawa's piano game.
Dick Papalia opened Ottawa Pianos in 1968.
Saturday night the family marked that anniversary with a concert at Centrepointe Theatre — featuring performances by the Ottawa Chamber Orchestra and Juno-nominated pianist David Jalbert.
Dick told CBC Radio's In Town and Out how he came to Canada from Italy in the 1950s and his first musical love was actually a different instrument.
"I studied [accordion] in the United States, in New York. Then I came back and opened an accordion studio," he said.
"But by 1965, the accordion business was totally dying. [So] I got involved with selling pianos."
read more at: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-pianos-50-year-anniversary-1.4540727
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