[Changleen]

Just dropped $1800 on getting the piano fixed up. Results in one week apparently. Ouch. Keyboard assembly and hammer assembly off to the workshop for a full noise refurbishment.

These are real old, and slightly fancy according to Piano guy. They have genuine Pb weights in the back of the levers that have oxidised so much over the years that many of them have split the wood and fallen out. All to be individually replaced with some sort of dense hardwood and new counterweights. Also much tuning to be done on the hammers.

Backboard is apparently high quality and needs no work, phew.

 

[jonKranked]

Just dropped $1800 on getting the piano fixed up. Results in one week apparently. Ouch. Keyboard assembly and hammer assembly off to the workshop for a full noise refurbishment.

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These are real old, and slightly fancy according to Piano guy. They have genuine Pb weights in the back of the levers that have oxidised so much over the years that many of them have split the wood and fallen out. All to be individually replaced with some sort of dense hardwood and new counterweights. Also much tuning to be done on the hammers.

Backboard is apparently high quality and needs no work, phew.

buy a house piano they said. it'll be fun they said.

one of my moms cousins in Maine was a piano tuner up in Maine. he would travel a lot, even as far as NH, MA, and i think VT because it's such a dying trade. he's retired now.