(1453) MUSIC AND ME (Sept. 14, 2017)
17 hours to fix
Jemima Finnegan’s Piano
Jemima Finnigan asked me to tune her piano in June 2017. She said
that piano is more than 40 years old. I didn't know that she can play piano
already by notes using the Seventh Day Adventist Hymnal song book.
After tuning the piano for more than 2 hours, I noticed many
defective keys that don't make a sound. We set another date for fixing it.
Just like a car, I took the main part of the piano that can't be
fixed if it is attach to the piano. I discovered a lot of things about piano
mechanism because of this. It's like putting down the whole engine of the car.
During the meticulous fixing of the
piano, I accidentally broke a part of the piano and fixed it with glue. But the
glue is not Crazy glue that dries very fast so I use a duct tape to hold it till
the glue dries.
Jemima is very furious because of
that accident. I just told her that when I take a vacation to Philippines, I
will go the piano factory and ask for that piece which I took some photos for
referral.
I was paid $100.00 for tuning the piano the first time. I said to
Jemima that if I will tune it again within 6 months, it's half the price.
For fixing the piano for 7 hours,
Jemima paid me per hour as I teach her --$15.00/hour.
There's a long story for fixing her
piano for another 10 and a half hours. I started at 8 am after sleeping with my
wife Flor at Dragon Tei's staff house. We have an agreement to pick her up at
11 am to send money to his sister and our daughter Karen.
It's already 11 am and I'm not even half way of fixing the meticulous parts of the piano. I message her that we will do it at 12:00 noon. I didn't check the cell phone that it's not being sent because there is a note from Palau National Telecommunications Corporation that there will be an outage in using the cell phone that day.
Jemima prepared me a nutritious sandwich lunch and we resumed fixing it. She helped me in the part where there are snapped cloth strings using her sewing kit! It works and she joked about us being partners in fixing pianos all over Palau.
Sources: Chess Mate by Roberto Hernandez
Tia Belau Newspaper
December 29,
2002 -- November 29, 2017
Chess and Music (Perfect Combination)
The Beginning
of Chess in Palau
By Roberto
Hernandez
Soon to be published as a book
Music and Me by Roberto Hernandez
Tia Belau
Newspaper
March 15,
2012 -- April 18, 2013
http://palau-chess.blogspot.com
April 25,
2013 -- November 29, 2017
The History of Chess in Palau
By Roberto
Hernandez
June 09, 2002 -- November 29, 2017 
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