I have always wanted an upright piano but the good ones are seriously expensive. Last weekend though my partner came across a real bargain at a local second hand shop. An upright from Berlin, age unknown, a few keys not playing and a bit out of tune... For the bargain price of $25. Yes you read right! So last week I fixed the keys that weren't playing and also the ones that were sticking.... Not too hard a job, just some minor adjustments on the mechanisms on the dodgy keys. Job 1 done! I've been thinking all week about how I might tune the thing without the right tool??? A drum key fit but I couldn't give it enough pressure to turn under the massive weight of the strings... So I broke my drum key. ;) no biggy. But now I had to come up with something else. Pictured is what I've ended up doing... A piece of a sprocket set (not the right piece mind you), a big ass shifting spanner to turn the thing and my iPhone with th guitar tuner app on it. It's very clunky and very easy to overtune it, with one not so tiny turn of the massive spanner, but it works! So 3 hours later I have turned the bottom half of the piano and it sounds great! The top half to go... Or should I say worst half to go... Who's idea was it to make the higher notes 3 strings each instead of one????? Some ye oldie folk I guess? Well he was a bastard! ;)
So I am hoping, all things going well, you might hear my new piano on a 26 recording very soon!
Nick | 26
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