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I'd be tempted to ask for my money back. How could anyone leave a job looking like that? :? The proceeds of the sale went to a charity I support so I don't really want to approach the donor and make a fuss. Besides, I suspect that because the job is such a shambles it must have been done by an ambi...

So perhaps it is possible to mimick the sound of the real thing, but I've never played any electric piano that even comes close on the touch. From my recent experiences of visiting showrooms I would agree with this, but I've never been able to articulate exactly what it is. We hear vague terms like...

Yes they were well and truly bodged. Closer inspection revealed that some overhang and others didn't even reach the sides. However I've removed each key and successfully filed the keytops back so that all the spaces are very closely matched. Unfortunately there are a couple which aren't even mounted...

Here's a picture of the middle section of my keyboard which seems to be all over the place. Before I bought it, the keys had been re-covered which has left rather ugly mismatches of space between them and in the instance shown here there is actual interference between two keys (although both are sti...

Hello, I'm trying to identify the age of my recently acquired oldish upright piano but I can't find any serial numbers whatsover anywhere. Could anyone indicate any other characteristics I should be looking for to help identify its age. The piano tuner I bought it from suggested 50's to 70's. I'll l...