Wow @mipiano what a stunning place to be able to play your piano!
It must have felt really special to be up there and even more so as you had your own personal 'staff' to carry your piano up there for you. 😜
For his sake I really hope it was a set of keyboards and not a real piano!
And where were the photos of him carrying it up for you! I didn't see any...
Hahaha, yes, personal staff to carry heavy things for me :D
No, it was not a real, grand acoustic piano. Well, as explained in the comment above, it is a digital piano without fixed legs (so we also bring folding legs for it) and a bit reduced the size of the body of the piano (but not affecting the full size of the keys.)
I do have one photo of him with the piano in the transportation bag, but as it is a close-up photo and I don't want to post it to hive without his consent 😇
But, if you zoom in on the last photo, you will see two guys in white shirts. One is holding a black tall case. That's my piano inside :D
Seems so small from the place I took the photo :))
Oh wow ok, so I had no idea that there are keyboards vs digital pianos..though I'm sure I probably really should have known as Piano is one of my favourite instruments and although I tried to teach myself about 20 years ago on a keyboard, I never pursued it and all I wanted to learn when I was young was piano, but my parents couldn't afford paying for my lessons and the irony was that we even (still) have an old piano in the family home- which I think was my grandfathers, when my mum was very young, so it would be about...80years old...BUT some of the keys were/are 'broken' and it was out of tune and that's really what my parents couldn't afford- getting it repaired as we lived in a very small country town and there was no-one around for miles that could do it.
But I did learn to play the theme to 'Loveboat" really well...🤣...(and still can...)
I took these last time I was there as I was going to sell it to someone to maybe restore it for sale...still haven't gotten that far yet..
And I did check out the 2 very handsome guys at the bottom of the walk looking up at you...oh and I also noticed the carry case too..😅
And I can't wait to see where your next magical musical adventure takes you! XXX
Wow, that is an old and gorgeous one!!
These old pianos usually need a lot of money to be restored ( to sound well) as fixing the broken key, strings and parts of the mechanism takes time and knowledge. However, as the wood is old also, and the pieces are not the same as they are produced nowadays, sometimes it is not rentable and possible to restore them.
But it all depends on the condition of the piano. :))
Yes, very expensive but such a shame to just dump it in the trash...the age, the history and the family significance of it...and sine one day I want to move to Spain...
I understand. I had one very old grand piano, but as it could not be fixed and I could not move it to my house, my parents just didn't have more space in their house so they gave it away.