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  • Play Like A Barbarian

    It’s apparently customary for piano tuners to annotate their work on the keys, starting after the serial numbers on the bass notes at the left end:

    Piano tuner notes
    Piano tuner notes

    After admiring that, you can pop the hammer links off with a prybar:

    Detaching piano keys
    Detaching piano keys

    All 88 keys stack neatly into a Home Depot Extra Small moving box, filling it about 2/3 full, starting with the bass keys on the bottom:

    Boxed piano keys
    Boxed piano keys

    I harvested the lovely wood panels, then the scrapper hauled the carcass to the transfer station. Perhaps it raised the secret chord when it hit the bottom …

    Lest you wonder why we didn’t try to contact X, who would surely be interested in a free piano: we did. Believe me, we tried, for many values of X, only to find nobody wants a piano in this day and age.