* Oh my heck. Oh. My. Heck! I am often asked to play the piano for various church meetings. There is a cool electronic piano in one of the side rooms we frequently use. You can make it sound like a piano or an organ and it has many of our hymns programmed to play at the push of a button. I've never liked electronic pianos and this one definitely wasn't my favorite. It always had issues with volume control. Sometimes it was a lot louder than others even though I used the same volume setting every time. About three years ago the volume stopped working all together. I would have the volume turned all the way up, but the piano could barely be heard. I had to pound on the keys to make it loud enough for everyone to hear. I asked and asked for someone to come out and fix it and finally, after two months, it was working again. Fast forward to last Sunday. I was asked to play the prelude in a meeting and the volume wasn't working. I had flashbacks to the last time it was broken and knew it would take another couple months before we could get someone out to fix it. As I was playing, a friend came over and asked if I could turn the volume up. I explained that the volume knob was as high as it would go and there was nothing I could do to make it louder. And then she proceeded to point out a foot pedal at the base of the piano, one an organist might use to control the volume. What?! I'd been playing this piano for five years and had never noticed the pedal! This was the cause of all my volume frustrations as it controlled the volume knob I had been using. If the pedal was all the way down then no matter how high I turned the knob, it wouldn't get any louder. And now I'm thinking back to three years ago... how many times did a repairman come out due to my complaints only to find absolutely nothing wrong? Oh my heck! LOL
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