She bought an old piano online just like the one she was taught to play on decades ago.
It was too good of a deal to pass up. The problem was; after buying it , travelling to pick it up and bringing it home… it didn’t work.
A handful of keys didn’t make noise, the speaker was distorted, the cover was stuck in the open position.
She felt took.
I spent the last couple of days figuring out how to fix it.
I cleaned the rubber contact strip, reapplied conductive paint to the contacts. I unstuck the keys, cleaned and reassembled the works.
The fuzzy speaker issue is t actually the speakers - it’s the capacitors on the amp board. Fortunately I had some amplified studio monitors to use in place of the tired output components
It’s working fine - it sounds fantastic.
My sweetie is gonna love playing her piano.
Proof that sometimes you just gotta fix things.
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