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I got a 120 year old Steinway for really cheap and fixed it up. I put new dampers on it, regulated the action, put a few new strings in it and tuned it up. The Strings I put in need another tuning, but I couldn't wait to get my hands on it and play it.
Here's the first tune I ran through.
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 King Klick
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Play it and make a video.
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in their shortened habits. What a delightful step in the right (or left) direction! Is it possible
we will soon see "topless" nuns sensually throwing their bodies about to the "Missa Solemnis
Rock"? Satan smiles and says he would like that fine - many nuns are very pretty girls with nice legs." -La Vey- Aka The Black Pope
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Ha! Possibly. It would be a shitty quality video from some old webcam though. Maybe I could borrow a nice HD camera. We'll see.
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What year did mary shelley's frankenstein come out 1860's?
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"It is the "Devil" who caused women to show their legs, to titillate men - the same kind of legs,
now socially acceptable to gaze upon, which are revealed by young nuns as they walk about
in their shortened habits. What a delightful step in the right (or left) direction! Is it possible
we will soon see "topless" nuns sensually throwing their bodies about to the "Missa Solemnis
Rock"? Satan smiles and says he would like that fine - many nuns are very pretty girls with nice legs." -La Vey- Aka The Black Pope
-Selling Old Comis http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/16286470
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 white wizard
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Very nice. Congrats on your acquisition  Those old Steinways are to die for. We just restored a 1928 grand at work 
Nice jam too.
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1818 from Wikepedia. This piano was around in her day. It was delivered to Chicago In 1891, I believe.
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Thanks White Wizard! You fix piano's? I'm just a DIY guy that knew nothing of the sort before I started.
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white wizard
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Naw, I'm an audio engineer. We just needed that old Steinway sound for a bit of recording. It's even more impressive that you diy'd that sucker.
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Haha! I bet. It really needs all new action, but that's an arm and a leg. Maybe down the road. The soundboard and harps are in pretty good shape, so it might be worth it.
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It took over a month. So maybe not quite so impressive 
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white wizard
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Pianos are a beast of an instrument. You still get my respect 
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What other instruments do you play?
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ha! I just play key'd instruments. I have a Rhodes and a Hammond M3 with no Leslie. I used to have a clavinet, but that transformed itself into the Steinway above you. Do you play?
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I don't play traditionally, no. Learned piano in my youth, moved on to bass and finally found a home with synthesizers and sound design. I'm very much into the textural nature of sound rather than its harmonic content... which is a pretentious way of saying I can't play worth a damn. haha.
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Nice. I'm the exact opposite. I play in a quintet here at my apartment and I don't know how to mic the instruments nor master the track. I've been doing it for a while too, which only makes things more pitiful. lol.
Mind you though, I'm working with 5 $100 mic's instead of more higher end ones without sound protection. There's alot of the room in the recordings.
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Five mics should be more than enough. We just used two Neumann's with the grand I mentioned earlier and they created a nice stereo field. In fact, most of my setups use a pair of omni condenser mics. Granted, micing a piano is tricky. But hey, even with $100 mics, that recording is spot on.
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I just put 2 mic's in the back of it where the soundboard is. On the bass end was a ribbon mic and on the highs was a condenser. I imagine it's alot trickier with a grand though.
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Solid. Grands are a bit tricky but not impossible. What's tricky is the double bass I'm working on now. Damn those f-holes. hahah.
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I play with a double bass player. He plugs into an amp though, so that makes things a bit easier for me. I just throw a condenser on the amp because that's all I have. My micing limitations make sound engineering decisions fairly simple. ; )
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white wizard
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Yeah man, you're set. Let me know if you decide to dive deeper into restoring that beauty.
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