Peanuts Begins by Charles Schulz for December 30, 2020

right back a you, you pint-sized pianst

Good bye 2020 don’t ever come back. Welcome 2021, I hope you can give us back the things 2020 took.

We need some music back in our lives for sure, Schroeder!

2020, Do not let the door hit you in the butt as you leave! And to all Happy New Year!

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY.

Thank you Schroeder. May it be a healthier, kinder, happier new year for us all. Classical music has been a balm these past nine-and-a-half months to be sure. A toast to Beethoven, to you and all your friends, and to all our friends who visit here.

Go back to the song from the Christmas Special. I think we should all dance!

Happy 1953!

Is that a toy piano or a word processor?

Ran out of staff and had to erase what he had already played. Didn’t realize he was playing an etch-a-piano.

I have a theory why he stopped and tilted the piano. In the last panel, his lower bass cleff staff changed to treble clef. His top staff remained treble as nothing indicated otherwise. Which meant he wanted to play much higher keys on the last word, most likely for emphasis. But when he realized he would run out of high keys, he shook the high notes to the lower part of the keyboard (like moving Middle C to the bottom note), thus creating higher notes above that. That’s impossible, but to Schroeder and the comic strip world, fine. Today, he’d just tap on a “octave transpose” button on an electronic keyboard and have electronically transposed notes.