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RE: To the top of the rock, with my piano!

in Q Inspired-by-Music2 years ago (edited)

Oh wow ok, so I had no idea that there are keyboards vs digital pianos..though I'm sure I probably really should have known as Piano is one of my favourite instruments and although I tried to teach myself about 20 years ago on a keyboard, I never pursued it and all I wanted to learn when I was young was piano, but my parents couldn't afford paying for my lessons and the irony was that we even (still) have an old piano in the family home- which I think was my grandfathers, when my mum was very young, so it would be about...80years old...BUT some of the keys were/are 'broken' and it was out of tune and that's really what my parents couldn't afford- getting it repaired as we lived in a very small country town and there was no-one around for miles that could do it.

But I did learn to play the theme to 'Loveboat" really well...🤣...(and still can...)

I took these last time I was there as I was going to sell it to someone to maybe restore it for sale...still haven't gotten that far yet..

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And I did check out the 2 very handsome guys at the bottom of the walk looking up at you...oh and I also noticed the carry case too..😅

And I can't wait to see where your next magical musical adventure takes you! XXX

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Wow, that is an old and gorgeous one!!

These old pianos usually need a lot of money to be restored ( to sound well) as fixing the broken key, strings and parts of the mechanism takes time and knowledge. However, as the wood is old also, and the pieces are not the same as they are produced nowadays, sometimes it is not rentable and possible to restore them.
But it all depends on the condition of the piano. :))

Yes, very expensive but such a shame to just dump it in the trash...the age, the history and the family significance of it...and sine one day I want to move to Spain...

I understand. I had one very old grand piano, but as it could not be fixed and I could not move it to my house, my parents just didn't have more space in their house so they gave it away.