{"id":6099,"date":"2013-01-25T14:03:03","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T20:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?p=6099"},"modified":"2013-01-25T14:03:03","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T20:03:03","slug":"piano-mayhem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/?p=6099","title":{"rendered":"Piano Mayhem"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Uh Oh.<\/p><\/div>\n

My piano had an annoying click on the middle E–a very common note to be played in EVERY lesson.\u00a0 So I finally decided to open the piano lid and see if I could fix it.\u00a0 I know, I know… it’s never that easy.\u00a0 I should have known that.\u00a0 But I looked any way.<\/p>\n

Sure enough, I couldn’t figure out what the click was coming from (and neither could Tim–I thought maybe two minds were better than one!) so I closed it back up.\u00a0 It got kind of stuck as we closed it, but I didn’t think much of it.\u00a0 So I repositioned all of my decorations on the piano and started playing for fun.\u00a0 It wasn’t long before I noticed there were a bunch of keys near the low end of the keyboard that weren’t sounding.\u00a0 Or at least not sounding right.<\/p>\n

Sigh.<\/p>\n

I took all the stuff BACK off the piano and opened it back up again.<\/p>\n

Uh oh.<\/p>\n

Now I notice there is a broken hammer head stuck down next to the keys next to it.\u00a0\u00a0 WHAT?!\u00a0 How did that happen!?<\/p>\n

Well, apparently there is a trick to closing the piano carefully… that I didn’t do.\u00a0 You would think that after owning the piano for so many years I wouldn’t have made the mistake… See the piano?\u00a0 Notice the little leg on the far left?\u00a0 Ok, that leg holds the lid open…<\/p>\n

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Right.\u00a0 Now, when you close the lid you should tuck the leg back up inside and close slowly.\u00a0 Which I did.<\/p>\n

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But when I closed it the leg swung back down and well… you can see what happened.\u00a0 (On a side note, I discovered later that it swung back down because the screw was too loose.\u00a0 I have since corrected this problem… )<\/p>\n

So the piano guy was out here bright and early this morning fixing the problem.\u00a0 Which actually wasn’t all bad, because the piano was in DIRE need of a good tuning as well, so he was able to do that as well.\u00a0 I admit I had been putting off the tuning because I wasn’t sure when we were going to be moving and I know I’ll have to get it re-tuned after we move, but it looks like it will be a good chunk of months longer at the LEAST.<\/p>\n

So, to recap.\u00a0 Don’t try to fix a piano yourself.\u00a0 Be careful to put the leg back up when closing the lid.\u00a0 Good ultimately came because of having to get it fixed.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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