#pianola — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #pianola, aggregated by home.social.
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We visited Beamish museum today and in the school house there was a player piano! And I asked if it worked and it did and I got to run it! I've actually never operated a working one. Inspired me to get a move on repairing mine.
The "school teacher" demonstrating it to me complained they only have one working piece of music for it so I might donate them a couple of mine.
There was much more cool stuff at Beamish but I'll toot about that later.
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We visited Beamish museum today and in the school house there was a player piano! And I asked if it worked and it did and I got to run it! I've actually never operated a working one. Inspired me to get a move on repairing mine.
The "school teacher" demonstrating it to me complained they only have one working piece of music for it so I might donate them a couple of mine.
There was much more cool stuff at Beamish but I'll toot about that later.
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We visited Beamish museum today and in the school house there was a player piano! And I asked if it worked and it did and I got to run it! I've actually never operated a working one. Inspired me to get a move on repairing mine.
The "school teacher" demonstrating it to me complained they only have one working piece of music for it so I might donate them a couple of mine.
There was much more cool stuff at Beamish but I'll toot about that later.
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We visited Beamish museum today and in the school house there was a player piano! And I asked if it worked and it did and I got to run it! I've actually never operated a working one. Inspired me to get a move on repairing mine.
The "school teacher" demonstrating it to me complained they only have one working piece of music for it so I might donate them a couple of mine.
There was much more cool stuff at Beamish but I'll toot about that later.
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We visited Beamish museum today and in the school house there was a player piano! And I asked if it worked and it did and I got to run it! I've actually never operated a working one. Inspired me to get a move on repairing mine.
The "school teacher" demonstrating it to me complained they only have one working piece of music for it so I might donate them a couple of mine.
There was much more cool stuff at Beamish but I'll toot about that later.
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None of the physical or phone app tuners I own can handle the lowest keys of my piano. They misidentify the frequency or just don't report anything. I'm just doing it by ear, comparing to the keys of the next octave up. I don't have perfect pitch but I can compare two notes fairly accurately, but it's particularly hard for these lower notes!
Anyone have any tips?
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It's got just about warm enough to start hanging out in the barn so I'm back on with the pianola restoration! Just cleaning keys but I'll be tuning it soon!
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I started writing about the pianola that I am (very slowly) restoring: https://johnleach.co.uk/posts/2023/06/27/i-went-to-the-dentist-and-bought-a-pianola/ #pianola #playerpiano #piano #restoration #repair #charityshop
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Found the date stamped inside, February 1938. The Pianola restorer I bought the piping from guessed from the serial number 1937, so he knows his serial numbers! Also found a cosy little mouse nest under the keys. #pianola #playerpiano #piano #restoration
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Back on with the Pianola restoration today. The replacement tubing arrived last week but just cleaning the keys - tiresome but it's a sunny day and I'm sat outside, listening to some piano music as I go. Clean ones on the left: #piano #playerpiano #pianola #restoration
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It just occurred to me: should I be tagging my player piano / pianola toots as #homeautomation too? #piano #pianola