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Reading a BBC report about Dominic Cummings slagging off Boris. Of course I believe everything Cummings says, and also everything that Boris/Government spokesperson says back. The fun of two commensurate liars slagging each other off is immense.
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Very amusing. 
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Welmar?
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Fuck. You know your pianos my friend!
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YoungAdult #1 and Mrs C_S can bang out a cracking good highbrow tune on it - I’m a bit more Chas & Dave standard tbh.
About 1975, I’m guessing, but that model never changed much, so it’s hard to tell without seeing the number. Nice instruments.
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We don’t know the age but reckon ‘70’s is about right.
the piano tuner always says he likes it - but then he would.
Have to say, it has a good sound, and hold its tune well,
Have had few problems with it tbf - it’s forgiving when I try to mash out a tune on it.
It’s actually very easy to tell the year with those. Welmar were the only maker who used the serial number to give the year of manufacture directly; look in the top, on the iron frame you’ll see a number about 5 or 6 digits long. Regardless of how long the number is, the first two numbers are the year it was made, for example 65031 is 1965.
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If it was misdirected from Amazon just keep it, they never want them back. 
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We have a monthly musical soiree in Slowlane Mansions, usually I give a solo piano recital but on occasion a sinfonietta when the restrictions are relaxed.
This is the music room…
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That really is a beautiful looking piano, a thing of beauty. Back in the day most homes, even working class ones, had a piano in the corner of the front room, if only as a piece of furniture. I remember my old man having one delivered, I think he bought it from a guy down the pub, I would have been about ten years old. One of my sisters got very keen and started taking lessons, but it fizzled out. I remember being fascinated by it and spent many an hour making what must have been a terrible din until my mother put the brakes on it. Now in old age I wish I had persevered and perhaps been pointed in the right direction. My daughter dabbles a bit, her partner bought her one for an anniversary present a couple of years ago. I think she does lessons on the internet. I really do envy people who can play though. She raves about this guy, a Hungarian lad named Peter Buka, who turns up to play street pianos at railway stations, shopping centres and the like. You may be aware of him. This is his version of Mad World, the Tears For Fears classic. Absolutely sublime.
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That was absofuckingloutely brilliant - Mrs C_S and YoungAdult#1 are no mean pianists, but are well out of his league.
I’m still in the New Forest League, division 2, Sundays 
Get on the two Asian chicks, he blew them away.
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Talking about pianos - and not misconstruing the above 
- it’s never too late to learn.
Get someone to teach you a song you like note by note and you’ll be off and running.
Mrs C_S taught me Beethoven’s moonlight sonata - over a painfully long period tbh (which was a training piece) - then a bit of boogie woogie piano
Still prefer playing the guitar/bass tbf.
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I Love piano, always have. My great aunt was a concert pianist and most of my cousins played through, I supposed some inherited gene. Sadly the inherited gene was missing from my DNA helix.
I tried, I had a Yamaha Electric Piano and had lessons but I’m wired up wrong for a pianist, a leftie who can pick out a fluent baseline with my left and plonk plonk with my right.
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When I was at school I wanted to learn the Guitar.
They had no Guitar teacher so I had to learn the trumpet.
I was shit at it.
So gave up music to just ruin people’s karaoke nights
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Electric piano you say? Back in your day it would have been the harpsichord surely?
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Probably a psalter - a cross between a harp and a lyre.