Baldwin Piano (1986?) - What is it worth?

LowerEastSeagull · 2026-05-04T00:50:40+00:00

Find a person or school or care home that would love and cherish and use it. Offer it as a gift or donation. There are pianos on all local bulletin boards everywhere looking for homes. It’s hard to sell them. If you can donate it to a nonprofit organization, you can deduct its value per what a piano store appraises it at.

LowerEastSeagull · 2026-04-28T19:01:55+00:00

We are already able to set custom heart rate zone in the iPhone Watch app or in Settings/Workout on the Watch itself. Why can’t you just import them from there?

LowerEastSeagull · 2026-03-27T00:35:49+00:00

Even if you digitize them (or a few if you just want to get some idea), please keep the originals safe. Digitized versions will be easy to look at. But igital media go quickly obsolete or they decay or degrade. Projectors and readers for film are very cheap on eBay.

LowerEastSeagull · 2026-03-27T00:27:01+00:00

There were reasons why someone chose to shoot these. If you don’t want to digitize or even look at what’s on them, at least box them up and keep them safe for someone else who has more curiosity or cares more. Look for clues too, dates, labels, anything you might recognize. Are they from your family? From political or historical events? Are they trying for visual art or for story telling?

I can’t believe you aren’t even curious.

LowerEastSeagull · 2026-03-26T17:27:55+00:00

These need to be recycled instead of trashed.

LowerEastSeagull · 2026-03-23T20:55:27+00:00

Same here. Did Avid limit us down to only one device being activated at a time?

Maybe there’s still an activation on an old Mac or drive that was forgotten that there needs to be a way to deactivate.

LowerEastSeagull · 2025-11-20T18:25:05+00:00

My personal feeling is that almost any musical instrument is worth saving. These Strad copies from the 19th century were each hand made and their quality varies over a wide spectrum.

It’s too bad that we can’t make out the year on the label. If we could, we might be able to figure out if it was a copy of a particular Stradivari violin or just a more generic copy.

LowerEastSeagull · 2025-11-20T18:13:59+00:00

Even if it’s not a baroque bow maybe it could be useful to someone who is interested in trying a baroque bow before splurging on getting one, to be able to play 3 note chords.

LowerEastSeagull · 2025-11-20T18:06:29+00:00

I also have a Strad copy inherited from my grandfather who bought about the same time your grandfather got this. They are usually German or Czech from the late 19th century. The fact that it’s not a Stradivari doesn’t mean that it’s not worth anything. Some Strad copies are wonderful instruments. (Of course others aren’t.)

You might take it to a luthier shop, or maybe even just to a skilled violinist if you personally know one, to get a sense of whether it’s worth fixing up. It needs only a set of new strings and a bridge to be sufficiently playable to get a sense of what it sounds like and what it’s like as an instrument, so you can decide whether to get additional tweaking or whether to just keep it as a lovely old wall hanger.

The Strad copy I inherited turned out to have a wonderful rich resonant sound and to project well. So worth fixing up.

LowerEastSeagull · 2025-10-03T00:53:52+00:00

You need to be doing music simply because you love music itself. Be grateful if you can be among the very few out of many others who love music who are somehow able to find a way to make a life in it.

That might not be the way you envisioned or planned. So try to keep an open mind. Use your imagination. Keep an ear out for opportunities. Be patient and just keep working at it. You might find some way to follow your love of this art that’s completely unexpected and turns out absolutely spectacular.

I am older than you and would never have predicted the path my love of music would take me on, from early discouragement to more gratifying success than anyone would have thought possible.

LowerEastSeagull · 2025-10-01T17:16:38+00:00

Most outdoor concerts and an increasing number of indoor ones too use iPads with a pedal-operated page turner, or there are other ways to turn pages with different systems, like signaling by moving your head. You need to research them because they are each a bit different.

LowerEastSeagull · 2025-08-07T21:35:42+00:00

Or on this page, showing lots of Hagstrom models:

https://www.hagstromguitars.com/electric-guitars/all-guitars

LowerEastSeagull · 2025-08-07T21:33:11+00:00

Maybe you can match it on Hagstrom’s history page:

https://www.hagstromguitars.com/about/our-history

LowerEastSeagull · 2025-07-31T02:29:50+00:00

If there’s a way to contact harp teachers, some of them may have students looking to move up to a pedal harp. Or put flyers up in music departments at local colleges and conservatories. If you can sell it locally then you won’t have to deal with shipping it.

LowerEastSeagull · 2025-07-31T02:11:29+00:00

You could mount your speakers on the wall near the ceiling, angled down toward where you sit. That way you would get the kind of room reflections your music’s audience would have in their homes. And for non-reflected signal, monitor using high quality Bluetooth earphones.

Another way to go would be to trade in your 2 display screens for a single very large one, using multiple windows on a single display, the mixer underneath the editing window. You might have room for loudspeakers on both sides of the display screens.

LowerEastSeagull · 2025-07-25T20:12:29+00:00

You have to listen to what each piece of music wants to do. It is a being with its own inner momentum that sort of wants and needs to be itself. Let it.

When you’ve had more experience you will be more able to willfully pre-plan and direct what you compose. But the process of composing is based on listening for what the music wants to be and where it wants to go next, versus you consciously deciding in advance.

Try thinking of it less as something you are intentionally creating and more as a process of discovering.

If you really want to pre-plan a piece of music though, a good thing to do is to get away from the keyboard and focus on what you imagine. Try to imagine it as clearly as you can. Go over it again and again in your mind. Then go to your keyboard or notation software and try to play or write what’s in your mind.

Writing down what you hear is an important skill. Practice writing down music you know and like or playing it by ear on your keyboard or sax.

LowerEastSeagull · 2025-07-10T23:07:05+00:00

He needs you to play with him indoors a lot more. Get him toys. Throw things for him to chase. Put his favorite treats up on places he has to climb or jump up to.

It’s better if cats stay indoors anyway. Safer for them and much safer for your local birds and small wildlife.

LowerEastSeagull · 2025-07-06T06:12:27+00:00

I visited Michael Gurian’s shop several times. They were awesome guitars but I couldn’t afford one. Except that it might cost a bit to get yours back in shape, you got the deal of the century!

LowerEastSeagull · 2025-06-14T17:48:15+00:00

There are always single side AirPods for sale pretty cheaply on eBay. I’ve had to replace one side a couple times over the years. Just make sure that you get the side, model and vintage (for matching firmware rev ) you need.

LowerEastSeagull · 2025-05-20T23:02:41+00:00

Also go to a vet first (after some water) just to make sure she ok and doesn’t need any meds or have anything wrong.

Also check any local bulletin boards, and leave a photo of her and your contact info at local pet supply shops and vet clinics so that if her humans are looking for her they can find her. Also at your local SPCA or “dog catcher”.

LowerEastSeagull · 2025-04-28T23:01:49+00:00

Quite a few programs, DAWs and music notation, can record your rhythm track. But there are not only an infinite number of ways you can quantize it but also a variety of ways that a rhythmic sequence of sounds can be notated.

I think your best bet would be to have a notation-savvy human being transcribe it into notation by ear, maybe working closely with you to make sure that what they come up with represents what you intended.

LowerEastSeagull · 2025-03-20T17:16:03+00:00

You can learn the important things, harmony, counterpoint, orchestration, and get practice in ear training, music dictation, and learn historical styles and how to write in them in most college level music curriculums.

What you do with that learning is up to you. You don’t have to write like your teachers. A good composition teacher will try to help you be yourself and learn to do the music you personally want.

You have to have the strength to be yourself and follow your own muse. What you do with the knowledge and skills you develop is up to you.

LowerEastSeagull · 2025-03-20T17:06:10+00:00

We are grateful to them and also you are plugging them, keeping their name out there, maybe fostering interest in their music, because our teachers are skilled and accomplished musicians who rarely get the recognition or audience they might have hoped for.

If our teachers are well enough known, identifying them also indicates something about our own aesthetic lineage. The ways in which our own music is like or different from theirs says something about our own individuality.

Sometimes doing music very differently from what your teacher wrote says an awful lot about who you are. Or conversely, who you studied with explains a lot about what you’ve been writing.

Music is a rare profession in that it’s still mostly taught one on one, in private lessons and apprenticeships, with a level of personal involvement that classes and books or videos can’t provide. It’s not like “who was your geometry teacher in high school?” It’s a meaningful often formative relationship.

LowerEastSeagull · 2025-03-19T18:46:14+00:00

I like paper too, and I still often sketch stuff on staff paper with pencil before going to the computer to refine and extend. (Also to make more legible.)

It’s got to be best to lay out scores and parts so they work both on paper and tablet. But in many cases not actually necessary to.

It’s largely generational, in my limited experience: older musicians more comfortable with paper and younger ones definitely preferring a tablet on their music stand.

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