@Lawrene0
There you go, an old piano never dies, it just becomes a work of art! We have a couple like that around here Lawrene. This poor dear is chained up in our main street outside one of the hotels.
She had a reasonable sound when they first chained her there but, a good many less than competent pianists have brought it's playability into serious question. I won't attempt anything on it any more.
Since we married we always had two pianos in the house (both 'hand me downs') because Ade was a good pianist, much better than I. She had her 'letters' from the conservatorium, she was a qualified piano teacher. In those early days we used to do duets, songs written for 4 hands like 'Nola'! Our problem was always trying to keep these 2 instruments in tune!
One day I bought a tuning fork, I thought this can't be hard, the tuning fork is middle C, I had a good ear, just ear it from there. Well I ended up breaking two strings and we had to get the piano tuner in and the first thing he said was..."Who on earth has been mucking around with this"!!
Anyway that was the end of that piano because the two new strings went out of tune at a different rate to the rest and we had to get rid of it.....some charity piano demolishing thing where 6 big burly guys with sledge hammers tried to see how quickly they could make a piano fit through a 10" hole! I wish I had done what you did Lawrene, but I was young and stupid then!
Ade's steady onset of MS meant she lost control of her fingers and had to give away playing all together and I was becoming disenchanted with the other barely tuned accoustic so in 1992 I bought this Technics which has been the musical love of my life ever since....
It was, and still is, the only digital that truly resembles a concert grand in touch, feel and sound! It is 26 years old now, nothing last forever, it gets a lot of use and I know one day I am going to turn it on and nothing will happen....and that day it will have to go into 'landfill' because it is not supported any more.
And, it's a toss up as what I am going be sadder seeing go....Adrienne or the Piano!
Cheers......Rob