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ME in the flesh here! Close to the end of the fellowship time following Granny Dru's funeral, I decided to ask around about the piano over in the corner of the Fellowship Hall at Mt. Carmel Baptist Church, that she lived less than a tenth of a mile from and attended fairly regularly before the Alzheimer's hit. I was told that nobody could remember the last time it had been tuned, but that it was very noticeably off, and that that was the primary reason it was not being used much. I then sat down on it and played a few of the simple Legend of Zelda tunes and the couple hymns I do know and while I was complimented for my playing sounding very nice, I could tell a tuning is LONG OVERDUE on it. It sounded pretty sickly!

So, in the coming weeks, after I go back to another person's house and finish a tuning and minor repair job I started but wasn't able to complete due to time constraints, I'll pick a day to ride back up to the area and open this one up to inspect it, perform any minor repairs I can, and then see if a simple tuning will suffice, or if I might have a full-blown pitch-raising job on my hands.

The fact that NONE of the pieces of the cabinet can just be lifted off to open it up, that even opening it up for basic tuning will require a Phillips-head screwdriver, I think helps testify to why this one hasn't been tuned in recent memory. :/

One of my relatives took the picture btw.

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ME in the flesh here! Close to the end of the fellowship time following Granny Dru's funeral, I decided to ask around about the piano over in the corner of the Fellowship Hall at Mt. Carmel Baptist Church, that she lived less than a tenth of a mile from and attended fairly regularly before the Alzheimer's hit. I was told that nobody could remember the last time it had been tuned, but that it was very noticeably off, and that that was the primary reason it was not being used much. I then sat down on it and played a few of the simple Legend of Zelda tunes and the couple hymns I do know and while I was complimented for my playing sounding very nice, I could tell a tuning is LONG OVERDUE on it. It sounded pretty sickly!

So, in the coming weeks, after I go back to another person's house and finish a tuning and minor repair job I started but wasn't able to complete due to time constraints, I'll pick a day to ride back up to the area and open this one up to inspect it, perform any minor repairs I can, and then see if a simple tuning will suffice, or if I might have a full-blown pitch-raising job on my hands.

The fact that NONE of the pieces of the cabinet can just be lifted off to open it up, that even opening it up for basic tuning will require a Phillips-head screwdriver, I think helps testify to why this one hasn't been tuned in recent memory. :/

One of my relatives took the picture btw.