Grand Obsession

Mary Anna

If anybody wants to feel old, Muffin just turned 29. (Ack!)

They are singing in a community choir and I was just down there Thursday to hear a performance. It is so lovely to live nearby.

ShiroKuro

@Jodi said in Grand Obsession:

I feel like some of these modern piano composers that I like have a much bigger reach than I do,

Yep. I play music by Alexis Ffrench, David Lanz, and George Winston. All of these guys are quite tall, and as far as I can tell from videos, they all have massive hands.

I’ll check out the Messenger.

I need to pick my next pieces to work on after the concert is over …

AndyD

Piano tuner booked for next Friday, retired from London Steinway so fingers crossed.

Meanwhile our piano stool, (chewed by a teething dog years ago) got some TLC this week:

All four legs chewed in two places were filled and then stained

AndyD

You'd never notice now

Nina

@wtg ️
I still miss my Pleyel...

ShiroKuro

@AndyD wow! That’s an impressive repair job! Did you do it?

AndyD

Thanks, started with some trepidation but thought, well, surely it won't be worse
Hardest was getting the original shape when sanding the filler (two lots of filler, the chewing was so deep).
And I never have exactly the right colour stain... oak, redwood, dark tudor. Usually mix them, trial and error.

AndyD

Anyone know how to cure a rocking motion of an adjustable duet bench? Though it adjusts up and down fine, it has loosened somehow over the last 30 years. If you sit in the middle and press down left hand right hand it rocks.

Rontuner

Depends on the manufacturer, Jansen will sell kits to replace worn bushings. Flip it over and try to determine where the movement occurs. Sometimes it is just a matter of loose screws/nuts and bolts.

Big_Al

@AndyD
Very nice restoration work, Andy.

Big Al

wtg

@Big_Al said in Grand Obsession:

@AndyD
Very nice restoration work, Andy.

Big Al

Indeed.

And why is it that dogs go after piano benches? Our first golden chewed off the corner of the lid on the piano bench (it wasn't an adjustable style of bench). The fellow who did the repair didn't do nearly as a good a job as @AndyD did on his bench.