u/Brotuulaan

I am a hospice chaplain and bring my guitar with me to facilities, but I also sometimes play piano when they have one and my patients are interested. I forget the brand at this point, but I played a ridiculously cheap piano today. It was the cheapest I’ve ever played, but a wide margin, even against other spinets. I never realized just now big a deal it would be to have corners cut in whatever ways they did with this one. The keys felt cheap, they didn’t move well, and the sound even on the keys that were decently in tune (most were not and some were downright atrocious) was pretty awful.

After I finished the last song during their dinner, several of them noted how bad the piano itself sounded and showed some musical knowledge. That was nice but obviously means they have more knowledge to cause their ears to offend them.

At least the piano at another place with a partially-functioning sustain pedal is tuned well and sounds/feels decent. :/

What was the worst piano you’ve ever played?