AS THE SERIES TITLE INDICATES, these videos—and their explanations—will be brief. The series itself, however, may take me a long time to complete, depending on how good I become at piano tuning and service.
I’m not worried about how well (or not) I play, because I’m not the star of this show; rather, it’s my late mother’s 1964 Kohler & Campbell console piano. This isn’t the first piano that I learned to play, but it’s the one I’ve played the longest and the one I grew to love after Mom quit forcing me to take piano lessons.
In later episodes, I’ll talk about the Kohler & Campbell brand—which was local, by the way—and about this specific piano’s history in my family. Also, I’ll feature a different hymn or sacred song in each episode to help measure my progress repairing the instrument. I’m not sure, though, how I’ll play a song if I take something apart and can’t get it back together right away. It’ll be a challenge.
Here’s a link to the first episode, “Trust and Obey” (click on the song title). Happy Mother’s Day weekend.