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Title	Excerpt from Ednaearle Burney Oral History Interview, 2011 February 24
Personal name	Burney, Ednaearle, 1936- --Interviews
Corporate name	St. Paul AME Church
Topical entry	Community response Natural disasters--Nashville (Tenn.) Storytelling--Nashville (Tenn.) Oral history--Sources Oral history--Library resources Musicians--Nashville (Tenn.)--Interviews Flood damage
Geographic entry	Nashville (Tenn.)--Floods Nashville (Tenn.)--History--21st century Nashville (Tenn.)--History--Sources
Description	Excerpt from an oral history interview with Ednaearle Burney, conducted on February 24, 2011 by Susannah Gibbons and Jared Brennan as part of the Flood 2010 Digital History Project. The topics discussed include some of Ednaearle’s losses from the flooding and the support she received in the aftermath. Though she lost her beloved piano, her brother, also a musician, gave her a keyboard shortly after the flood. The complete interview is in the Special Collections Division.
Transcript	BURNEY: --but my most traumatic um, experience was--I am a musician--and my piano--when they brought my piano out, it was very difficult. GIBBONS: I’m sorry. BURNEY: At first, things didn’t bother me, you know, I was just, just glad to get out of the house. But, um, when they brought my piano out, I--I had to cry. GIBBONS: How long have you played the piano? BURNEY: Since I was a teenager. GIBBONS: Mhm. BURNEY: And I, we had lived in the house for 41 years, so I’d had that piano even before we moved there. (Pause) GIBBONS: Have you been able to play during--this time? On another piano? BURNEY: Yes. My brother, um--passed in August. He was a musician. Um, that’s the first thing he bought me, was a keyboard. He was sick; he called me to his house, and gave me the money. He said, “you go and buy you a keyboard.” And he bought me a keyboard. I play for St. Paul AME Church— GIBBONS: Oh— BURNEY: and, um, you know, I needed to practice, so I had a keyboard before I had a bed. (laughs) GIBBONS: Oh--wow, that’s— BURNEY: (still laughing) Yeah, he was a musician, well-known musician, so he knew how I felt.
Creator	Burney, Ednaearle (Interviewee); Brennan, Jared (Interviewer); Gibbons, Susannah (Interviewer)
Publisher	Special Collections Division of the Nashville Public Library, 615 Church Street, Nashville, Tennessee, 37219
Contributors	Warkentin, Bettina, 2012 (Transcriber)
Date	2011-02-24
Type	Sound; Oral histories
Format	audio/mp3 (2.76 MB; 01min., 30sec.)
Identifier	FDHBurneyEClip001
Source	Excerpted from: Ednaearle Burney Oral History Interview. Born-digital recording(s) converted to mp3 format for online access in 2012 from 16bit 44.1khz WAV file archival master recording.
Language	English
Relation	Flood 2010 Digital History Project
Coverage	2010-2019
Rights	U.S. and international copyright laws protect this digital content, which is provided for educational purposes only and may not be downloaded, reproduced, or distributed for any other purpose without written permission. Please contact the Special Collections Division of the Nashville Public Library, 615 Church Street, Nashville, Tennessee, 37219. Telephone (615) 862-5782.
Location	Closed Stacks-Special Collections Division
Geographic Data	36.209308 -86.833447