Piano-tuning day today
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (382371)
Rockingham, Australia
January 29, 2018 6:28pm CST
It’s Tuesday in Australia and we’re just starting our day. This morning Vince will be cleaning up a couple of small machines that we hope to sell on Saturday then he will be going to golf this afternoon. I need to do some shopping but first I’ll have to wash my car as it is incredibly dusty. Or I might get lazy and take the other car. I like my little Hyundai Excel and it is very easy to park. However this isn’t a problem at the supermarket as there is ample parking.
This afternoon I have to be home as the piano-tuner is coming to tune our piano. The piano was manufactured in Germany in the late 1800s by Carl Ecke and brought across from South Australia by ship when my ancestors came over to the west. They also brought an orphan foal on the ship. It (the piano, not the foal) has done good service and Vince plays it pretty regularly.
The red thing on the keys is the tuner's bag of tools from a previous tuning.
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. . . but we'd probably hear the difference once it's actually tuned!
@Juliaacv (56354)
• Canada
30 Jan 18
@JudyEv I love that sound also, but cannot play the harp. Within our piano instead of just having 1 set of strings or harp, ours had two sets, or a double harp. They are somewhat rare. But very big and very heavy.
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@Juliaacv (56354)
• Canada
30 Jan 18
@JudyEv They are very valuable. Someone got wind of the fact that we had one and offered us a very generous amount for it. After the piano was taken to the basement, the former owners changed the stairway, so that there was a turn in it. That meant that the piano would never fit back upstairs. The person that was interested in buying ours took it apart piece by piece and hauled it out of our home that way and then he reassembled it when he got it to his piano shop. The harp weighed several hundred pounds alone.
I was just happy to see it gone to a good home and of course that meant that we could finally have new carpeting laid in our basement.
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@allknowing (153529)
• India
31 Jan 18
Old is gold is all what I can say about your piano not just old but ancient. . Do you also play?
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@allknowing (153529)
• India
31 Jan 18
@JudyEv Would you not be interested in getting back?
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@JudyEv (382371)
• Rockingham, Australia
31 Jan 18
@allknowing No. It's a long story. Maybe I'll write about it one day. But I'm a bit old now anyway.
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@JudyEv (382371)
• Rockingham, Australia
30 Jan 18
Yes, it has done well but the body is starting to look a bit shabby now.
@Deepizzaguy (122269)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
30 Jan 18
I like seeing pianos in these kinds of stories on this site.
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@JudyEv (382371)
• Rockingham, Australia
11 Feb 18
@Hannihar Vince plays by ear. Although I practiced hard and passed my exams etc I don't consider myself very musical really. I really hate playing in front of people and in the end I just gave it up altogether. All Vince's family is very musical.
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@peachpurple (13961)
• Malaysia
30 Jan 18
wow, I had never seen the real thing inside a piano, gosh!
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@yanzalong (19091)
• Indonesia
30 Jan 18
I hope I will be able to buy a car again. I sold mine a long time ago.
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@JudyEv (382371)
• Rockingham, Australia
30 Jan 18
I have had mine since about 1998. It isn't worth much now but it still runs well. I love the fact that, being small, it is so easy to park.
@JamesHxstatic (29410)
• Eugene, Oregon
30 Jan 18
What a great old piano you have with history too! I am reminded of an old tune friends of mine (brothers who played and sang together) did that went "There'll be no new tunes played on that old piano, that old piano of mine, there." be no honky tonky and no razamatazz .".and more.
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@JudyEv (382371)
• Rockingham, Australia
30 Jan 18
I've just found all the lyrics to it. What a great song. I'll search later for a melody - unless you'd like to sing it for me! 
@LindaCPearson (2240)
• United States
4 Feb 18
I have an old Kroeger upright, not a pretty thing but a great booming sound, which I like when I play Beethoven! I had it tuned several years ago and the tuner said its sound was as close as I could get to a baby grand in an upright. I was very proud!
