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In the past, I've had luck removing noise from recordings, using rendered post processing. Decided to look up to see if there's a real time denoiser vst, and came across the Bertom Denoiser. It's pay what you want, even $0. I threw it on my guitar effects chain, right after Neural Amp Modeler, and it greatly reduced the noise from my amp model, without sacrificing guitar audio quality. It's not 100% gone, but I'd say it's about 85% gone. Much better sound. Just thought I'd share because I've seen some discussion about noise in the past. Lemme know if it works for you guys, or if you have a better solution.

My mom and dad are building a new home. My mom is looking to store her early 1900's steinway baby grand while the home is being built. The piano is in good shape in a lot of ways but needs some pin block work on at least a few strings. She will get it tuned and a few keys lose tuning within a few months. I'm trying to get her to move the piano to a technician to do work on it while the home is being built. I don't think she wants to pay for a full restoration. Is this work that can be done for at least a somewhat reasonable cost? In my mind, I think it would be best to have a tech give it a once over to identify the best work to be done within a certain budget... Like I said, probably some pin replacement and a few new strings... Action and other mechanics seem good. It makes sense to me to do it while the piano has to be moved out of it's current location anyway. She thinks she wants to just store it, and then have someone come and work on it when it's in the new house, as she's worried about it getting damaged in moving. (I'm worried she just won't, so it would be best to just strike while the iron is hot). What do you guys think? Is it reasonable to find a tech to do a fairly extensive inspection, and a limited restoration, without doing a full rework of the entire piano (trying to keep cost a consideration... Not cheaping out. Just keeping in mind my mom is not a professional and doesn't want to drop a fortune into a hundred year old piano). Also, do any of you know of people in the Maine/New England area that could perhaps do this work? We can move the piano professionally. It's more about the technical work that needs to happen.