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old pianos sound great, keep the strings that still work


Definitely. Lots of water damage though, quite a few of them have been attacked by rust and it is hard to remove the rust without significantly weakening the strings. Endless patience. Today I set all the hammers so the una corda pedal works as intended, not that I use it but I felt it looked like crap with all those irregular spacings. This instrument has had a very rough life. I should have made 'before' and 'after' pictures. It's a cheap DDR product, even so it just hurt to see it in that shape. It's a 'Zimmermann' they have a bed reputation (deservedly so, the action really is poorly manufactured) but with a lot of tweaking you can get it to work quite well, definitely above the level that I'm at in playing so that is good enough.




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