Good Mornin' Blues

Lord I swear the moon turned a fire red Have mercy

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Two weeks ago I paid £100 for a new pedal I hadn't yet played, what an impressive pedal it is. Such a sweet little box.

EDIT: Pedal was sold for basic life necessities, consider this before buying. Food > This pedal.

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Something made for university.

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(11/4/16)

A couple of week ago me and a friend had the chance to take home an upright Bell piano for free. The catch was we had less than two hours to arrange transportation, which we had no way of getting at such short notice. An hour and two drinks later with no other plan that would work but ‘carry it back’, two more friends arrived just as enthusiastic about the prospect of a free piano as we were. So we decided between the four of us we could carry a piano through the city of Manchester and up into Salford which would’ve been around a 20/30 minute walk usually. It was also raining rather heavily, although the strange and bewildered looks we received from people on the opposite sides of glass or perplexed faces under umbrellas made the work slightly sweeter. We got maybe ten minutes around the corner before we gave up after realising were ripping it apart and buckling the little wheels so we flagged down a taxi big (and willing) enough to take four people and there new piano home.

Hopefully not the last time I play the piano in the back of a taxi.

Unfortunatley when we got the thing back we needed to do a quick repair job. We took the wheels off so it sat level to the ground and knocked the panels back together.

Apologise for the quality.

We then had to get it up a flight of stairs into our second floor flat, where it sits in the hallway because it doesn’t fit anywhere else.

We initially went into the shop for a tuner and after we played some rather awful piano we struck up conversation with a man named Paul, who was listening close by. He told us they had a scrap piano we could take home for free on a first come first serve bases.

‘You need to be back before 5 and its yours"

In all it took us the best part of the day to get it into our flat but it was worth it.