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I actually own a 1897 Baldwin pump organ that I recorded myself playing the simple hymn version of Oh My Father. The sound makes one feel like he is in a pioneer church service. With the pump organ, your feet are constantly moving to provide the are for the organ pipes while you play. A little challenging.

My progress is not candy coated. I'm finally slowly plinking my way through the easy LDS hymn book by sight reading on the piano. I have 13 easy hymns that I've learned to play and sing too, and passed off by memorizing the piano part. I bombed my last recital. I choked and the piano keys were much stiffer than the keys on my Baldwin Baby Grand I inherited from my mom, felt wrong. She got her Master's in music. On the guitar I had spent enough time but gracefully ended after 1 verse before I could crash because of pressure. I prefer pre-recording my songs since I can pick my best one and there is less pressure to get it right the first and only time. Since I started learning during the Covid restrictions, we didn't have live recitals until last spring. Now we will do spring recitals live, but winter will still be recorded. I have a few favorites, but I play them fairly well only because I memorized them. Now I'm actually to the point of reading quickly enough to play, with errors, Bass and Treble Clefts two to three finger chords, very slowly. I started by learning the piano keys and notes, really ground zero! For those that understand piano levels, I'm at level 3 working towards level 4 in the lesson books. I play and sing a mean House of the Rising Sun on the guitar. My attempt of the Edmond Fitzgerald was pretty good as was my El Condor Pasa. Every thing I do, I do it for you was a train wreck in my opinion. My last Spring recital song was the one I cut way short, Guantanamera in Spanish. I had it down and choked. Love recital. I'm just now starting fingering instead of strumming. Fingers don't cooperate like I want them to. I play and sing to maximize difficulty. I sang in choir as a kid over 45 years ago but never learned the notes. Now I know them fairly well. There is so much written music that nobody could play 1% of it in a lifetime. Now if I skip a day without practicing I don't feel right. Even on vacation! We went on vacation last year to SF and they let me practice a little late at night on the piano at the Beacon Grand, the old Sir Francis Drake. They were so kind to us the 5 days we stayed there. It was the third day I finally asked them because I was having withdrawals. I didn't have my music with me but practiced the songs I had memorized. First serious vacation that was not a family reunion I had ever gone on with all of my kids. Cost me a small fortune but the memories were very priceless. Piano, guitar, music is wonderful disease.😂 We should probably take this to a private chat.

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I relate, but no arthritis. Just hard worked muscles that don't always cooperate like I think they should. Deeply regret not putting in the time when I was "young". Still, I have 1 to 20 years left? Guitar is a little bit of a struggle finger picking. Keep going. I'm jealous.

The range that I have encountered is $90 to $150 within 15 miles. I've been telling ours she needs to raise her rate to $120. She has been tuning pianos since she was 10 years old. She has a Music degree and has taught my kids for 14+ years, and tuned our pianos since 2019. She's taught me a lot about music and pianos. I decided I would learn to play the piano and guitar starting in the middle of May of 2021. I don't think I'll ever make it to advanced, but I'll do the best I can while I can. She's teaching me how to tune my own piano. But I'd never do it like you or her. I have other places my short time is required. But doing my own I will have no problem.

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I started learning two and a half years ago, and I'm over 60. Spend 15 minutes twice a day, we waste more time than that, and after some frustration with muscle memory, you will gain a joy and start to feel a freedom that's very unique and special. I'm starting to be able to read Bass and Treble clefts almost at the same time, although slowly. I promise it is worth the cost and effort. My piano gets tuned once a year minimum, but I try for twice. My daughter got a piano recently and I pay for hers as well. Good electric pianos don't require tuning but there is no substitute for the sound of a real piano. Every piano's keys feel differently. Some are stiffer, harder to press, while some are more narrow. Practice, practice, practice makes the difference. Everytime I pass by my piano I try to play one of my current, easy songs. You started something great. Don't stop and have regrets later. Overall, pianos are one of the cheapest "hobbies" out there. Good luck! Hang in there. It's worth it! And so are you. Best wishes.

Tuning a standard piano is fairly complex and the stated price is very reasonable, really on the low end. Most standard pianos take approximately two hours or more to tune plus his drive time and years of experience. Whole Bass keys/notes (A1 to A#2 (Bb2), the first lower fourteen on most pianos, only have one string while the following 14 strings,B2 to C3, have two, and the remaining 60 keys,C#3 (Db3) to C8, have three strings each, with A7 to C8 being very hard to hear and distinguish. That's a total of 222 piano strings! (Unless my math is off) While I only started to learn to play the piano two and a half years ago, like most everything I get involved with, I've learned a fair amount about piano tuning and the mechanics of pianos. I will never be a professional piano tuner and my hat is off to those who are good at it. The same holds for Collaborative Pianists. I've gained a deep respect for those who tune pianos well and they earn every "cent", especially when a piano is more than ten to twenty cents out of tune. Best wishes and my greatest respect.

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Good ol' Levers! A REAL gentleman with a lot of class.

Sincere, best wishes.

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I could pick it up for you. For you, I'd make the drive.

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Nice. Best wishes.

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