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    Great 45acp Kahr. Wonderful double action trigger, I only shot it a few times and besides that it sat in the safe. Practically brand new. What 45 ammo I have goes with it. Original box and paperwork. Askin $400 for it. Want to get into a 44 mag revolver. So if you have something and want to take the Kahr on trade I’ll throw the extra cash in. 

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    8 hours ago, Boarman03 said:

    And here I was in September of 2021 fixing the Baldwin baby Grand I inherited from my mom in 2019. I had never repaired one before but I was having a problem with E4, a wire was bent and not allowing the hammer to function correctly. Maybe a pencil ✏️ had fallen in and somebody tried to play?

    Nobody in the family wanted it and my kids were taking lessons. My kids have all learned violin from the age of 5 years old. Their mother also plays the violin. Because of their great music teacher and their mother, my kids are very accomplished on the violin. The piano was later for all of the kids($$$$) and the last two also did guitar. We did get a discount for so many lessons. After we were down to just my last child taking lessons, I stepped in and my oldest daughter lives nearby and is taking lessons on the piano, and occasionally her violin to keep it up. On varey rare occasions my wife will take a lesson to try and get herself back going.

    It was really awesome the nine years my kids would play together with the teacher as collaborative Pianist in church. Once a year in the summer they would play once for our Ward, and then for hers. As my kids left for college, we combined kids from both families, my youngest is a year younger than her oldest, and they would play. This was the first summer that they did not play, too much going on. It takes a couple of weeks to put together a really good performance, and trust me, these were really, really good.the music teacher would write an arrangement of the existing church hymn to fit the instruments. We've been spoiled! The feeling when they played was so awesome and heavenly that many eyes would start to water up. I really miss my kids.

    The youngest will be applying for a mission in January. We'll see where they want to send him. Hopefully a Spanish speaking, but who knows where the Prophet and upper leaders will feel needs him. He's my only boy and my daughters contemplated going, my third daughter may choose to go yet, but the older two decided not to. 

    I know that my kids learning to play violin and piano was the best investment I've made, and now it's my turn, before I kick the bucket. Much harder after 60! I'm the teacher's oldest student and it's very humbling to be the old fart playing the simpler songs at or in the recitals. A lot of pressure twice a year. I definitely would rather give a speech in front of a large auditorium of people. I'm way out of my comfort zone. But by now everyone knows I'm just a beginner. Motivates me to try much harder to be much better, and to learn much faster 

    Good luck with your business. I've been self employed all of my life. 

    I was a little lower than most but gave the best service and work. As I got extremely busy, I raised my prices until I stayed busy but still had a little excess capacity. I still get people wanting me to do their work and willing to wait until it fits my schedule.

    You do what you feel you need to do to make it work for you. Check on others by calling for a tuning to see what they are really charging. Repairing pianos may bring in more as well, if you enjoy that.

    Life goes by very quickly, so try to enjoy what you do.

    The only things we can take with us when we pass to the other side are our knowledge and experiences, so always go for the best of both!

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    Thank you for all the advise! I know it comes from a real place of caring. As for repairs I’m not insured for that nor did I reach that level in my apprenticeship. I can replace a sting if I break one, that’s about it. That is an intimidating beast! Tuning is just something my mom got me into when I had no direction in life 😂 it’s a good side gig that I enjoy. All my kids play and are in the Arizona study program. With whatever path they take in life be it serve a mission or just play for the ward or themselves I hope they remember the safe place music takes them to. My mother has her masters in music and has taught them since they could start, so I hope they cherish those memories with their grandma. 

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    6 hours ago, Boarman03 said:

    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.

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    Amazing!

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    51 minutes ago, Boarman03 said:

    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. 

     

    Now learn the organ for your ward! It’s a fun transition from playing the piano. You creep or crawl across the keys while you play those hymns you have learned. Then once you’ve nailed that down add in your feet! It’s those easy bass cleft chords you will be familiar with👍🏻 you got this!

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    8 hours ago, Boarman03 said:

    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.

     

     

     

    I am on the low end. I only did a 2 year apprenticeship under Pete Coleman. So I don’t feel worthy to charge the typical $250 and up that his. Wish I would have stuck with it when I was younger but life called and I had to focus on supporting my family. So now I tune pianos as a side gig that my time allows for it more. Pete told me I could charge up to $175 for my skill level and that I could advertise on my own as it wouldn’t conflict with his customer base. So here I am!

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    We are a Weimaraner family thru and thru, we have 2 males. One was from a breeder and the other was a rescue. The breeder pup is perfect, the rescued one might have been a bit too inbred 😂 he will smile at ya and it freaks me out! But they are best buds. They are just pets for us but I take them out all the time and they bring back quail and rabbits and ground hogs all the time. In fact they had brought a rabbit in the house the other day🤦🏻‍♂️ I don’t even know how the rabbit got in the back yard but it was a murder scene 🤣🤣

    Great dogs, we will only ever have Weims!

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