NOPD 1965 Grinnell Bros Spinet piano
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Alex_SG
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I think the little slide out drawers are probably where you would put some candlesticks, so you can see the music in the dark. I know a lot of older pianos had candelabra built into the front of the cabinet next to the music stand for the same reason. I'm not 100% sure, but it's my best guess...
It also appears you can get to some of the tuning pins via these slide out panels, so it could also double as an aid for getting to those pins to tune the piano...
I'll ask my father in law, who is a retired piano tech if he has any idea or info to share...
It also appears you can get to some of the tuning pins via these slide out panels, so it could also double as an aid for getting to those pins to tune the piano...
I'll ask my father in law, who is a retired piano tech if he has any idea or info to share...
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Col Mustard
Ambassador of Perseverance
Great to see others coming aboard this thread.
Guitarists are among the few musicians who figure they can have a career
without becoming musically literate. *grins.... guilty as charged!
Except that I studied from the beginning, but only those things that seemed
relevant to my innocent (arrogant) mind. So I've picked up a lot of music theory
and practice, all for practical purposes. I learned my intervals as a vocalist,
but I learned them by ear. I learned chord structure and composition by reading
a book, and then put as much of it to work as I could, as a chunka-chunka-chunka
kind of guitarist.
The piano is a godsend, and a whole world of new experience...
as well as a confirmation of concepts I only learned in space.
So I recommend this to any one who wants to understand this thing
we all do... You don't have to own an antique wooden acoustic piano,
because the technology has come so far. But the keyboard is the key
to the whole universe IMHO. Learn that sucker!
Guitarists are among the few musicians who figure they can have a career
without becoming musically literate. *grins.... guilty as charged!
Except that I studied from the beginning, but only those things that seemed
relevant to my innocent (arrogant) mind. So I've picked up a lot of music theory
and practice, all for practical purposes. I learned my intervals as a vocalist,
but I learned them by ear. I learned chord structure and composition by reading
a book, and then put as much of it to work as I could, as a chunka-chunka-chunka
kind of guitarist.
The piano is a godsend, and a whole world of new experience...
as well as a confirmation of concepts I only learned in space.
So I recommend this to any one who wants to understand this thing
we all do... You don't have to own an antique wooden acoustic piano,
because the technology has come so far. But the keyboard is the key
to the whole universe IMHO. Learn that sucker!
That is, unfortunately, true.
OP
Col Mustard
Ambassador of Perseverance
end of story:
a pair of fans came over yesterday with a couple of gorillas, and took the piano
from my home. I've been selling everything, and throwing away what no one would
buy. I've been giving way stuff that means more to someone else than it means to
me.
Life changes have altered my outlook, changed my "career," ...fracked with my attitude
and put me onto my new path, as care giver to a beloved lady with very serious illness.
We never know what's around the corner. Sometimes it's a dreadful drop...
Sometimes it's a pleasant surprise. Anyway, I'm well on my way down my new path,
and am crying no tears (except once in a while) and am ruthlessly getting rid of anything
I don't think I can haul over Loveland Pass. Acoustic pianos are for those in stable
situations. Which is NOT me anymore. So it had to go.
THIS is not mine, but is a picture I saw published on the internet as a poignant symbol of
waste and the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. I titled the photo, "Piano in the Rain"
and kept it on my 'puta, knowing I would use it in some document, because it made me
'feel that way..." Cain't even give it away.
I offered Cindy's piano "free to a good home" and some folks responded.
I would have felt lousy if I had to hire some guys to haul it to the landfill.
But that's the fate of the acoustic piano, I fear. TOO HEAVY, too bulky
too "high maintenance." May it bring them joy, as it did for me.
When you need the tone of the acoustic piano...
there is no substitute IMHO. But when you need something practical, that
you can pick up easily and plug in somewhere else, there's no substitute
for that either. And the future belongs to Trogladytes, it seems.
When the paradigm shifts, we all start from zero. And that my friends, is
not a comfort when you're 71. If I make it to the other side of the mountain,
I may get myself some kind of keyboard thing, so I can continue what I started
with the 88s. But there's a lot of turbulent water to navigate before I get to
any such place. I may do it in some other incarnation.
a pair of fans came over yesterday with a couple of gorillas, and took the piano
from my home. I've been selling everything, and throwing away what no one would
buy. I've been giving way stuff that means more to someone else than it means to
me.
Life changes have altered my outlook, changed my "career," ...fracked with my attitude
and put me onto my new path, as care giver to a beloved lady with very serious illness.
We never know what's around the corner. Sometimes it's a dreadful drop...
Sometimes it's a pleasant surprise. Anyway, I'm well on my way down my new path,
and am crying no tears (except once in a while) and am ruthlessly getting rid of anything
I don't think I can haul over Loveland Pass. Acoustic pianos are for those in stable
situations. Which is NOT me anymore. So it had to go.
THIS is not mine, but is a picture I saw published on the internet as a poignant symbol of
waste and the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. I titled the photo, "Piano in the Rain"
and kept it on my 'puta, knowing I would use it in some document, because it made me
'feel that way..." Cain't even give it away.
I offered Cindy's piano "free to a good home" and some folks responded.
I would have felt lousy if I had to hire some guys to haul it to the landfill.
But that's the fate of the acoustic piano, I fear. TOO HEAVY, too bulky
too "high maintenance." May it bring them joy, as it did for me.
When you need the tone of the acoustic piano...
there is no substitute IMHO. But when you need something practical, that
you can pick up easily and plug in somewhere else, there's no substitute
for that either. And the future belongs to Trogladytes, it seems.
When the paradigm shifts, we all start from zero. And that my friends, is
not a comfort when you're 71. If I make it to the other side of the mountain,
I may get myself some kind of keyboard thing, so I can continue what I started
with the 88s. But there's a lot of turbulent water to navigate before I get to
any such place. I may do it in some other incarnation.
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Col Mustard
Ambassador of Perseverance
Don't get me wrong... I'm very grateful for the opportunity to
experience this old instrument, and to find someone who could tune
it and repair it and put it into fighting trim.
AND I'm very glad to have found someone who wanted the same,
and wanted it bad enough to hire the gorillas to carry the instrument
home. It would have ended up in landfill if I hadn't rescued it. And it
sounded very good, in a traditional way.
I learned a lot in my lessons with my cool instructor, and
will keep what I learned. So If I find another keyboard (of a more
modernistic type) I will be able to pick up where I left off when
the doo-doo hit the foo-foo in 2019.
experience this old instrument, and to find someone who could tune
it and repair it and put it into fighting trim.
AND I'm very glad to have found someone who wanted the same,
and wanted it bad enough to hire the gorillas to carry the instrument
home. It would have ended up in landfill if I hadn't rescued it. And it
sounded very good, in a traditional way.
I learned a lot in my lessons with my cool instructor, and
will keep what I learned. So If I find another keyboard (of a more
modernistic type) I will be able to pick up where I left off when
the doo-doo hit the foo-foo in 2019.