satoroca on Nostr: I'm fixing this old piano by the third world way. You take each one of the pins and ...

I'm fixing this old piano by the third world way.
You take each one of the pins and strings out and place a little piece of a special kind of sandpaper on the hole.
Then it can be tuned back.
This is done whenever the piano cannot hold the tuning or even be tuned.
One by one so we don't ruin the overall tension of the piano.
And they last another lifetime in being tuned after this.
This is the third world way of doing it because I've seen first worlders changing pins to larger size and strings and even replacing pinblocks.
And even I've seen videos of pianos being shredded and thrown to the garbage. That's a crime against humanity.

I just take my time and save them. I earn a little less than the value of a cheap used piano.
So it's a bit of an act of love and a seed for pianos to be alive.