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Mom with the real questions (media.piefed.world)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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[–] 56 points 8 months ago (11 children)

I have a big bread baker's Hoosier cabinet in my kitchen. I'm not a baker, I've never had any use for it.

Very similar to this one, with a flour sifter, and slide-out porcelain steel table:

My older sister shipped it to me without asking me, and then told me it was coming about two days before it arrived. Our mom had just died, and my sister didn't have room for it, but she "wanted it to stay in the family."

It is a beautiful piece, solid oak, probably over 100 years old. So, I kept it. It just sits there, taking up space in my barely-big-enough kitchen. I expect when I die, my only son will sell it. I should probably just sell it now, my sister would hate me for it, though.

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Now that's the kind of thing my wife would love to have. Maybe at some point we'll take away someone else's space occupier.

    We've got a few pieces of furniture, the one in really not looking forward to is the musical instruments. We're talking full grand piano, player piano, pneumatic uprights, etc. They are huge. There is no way my wife won't want at least one, and I'm probably the only one who knows how to do the maintenance despite it being her parents stuff and she has a few siblings.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    You probably already know this, but there is a collectors market for player pianos and other automated musical instruments. See AMICA in the US. (Not sure about non automated ones; heavily depends on the instrument.)

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    Yeah everything is a player (including the piano), and aside from the instruments themselves there are hundreds of rolls - originals (which my kids saw how they are made with an old Mr. Rogers episode I put on for them), customs my FIL made of his own music, and some modern pop we've picked up for them.

    And yep, AMICA is a great option, my FIL is a member still I think. We are definitely going to take at least one of them, I have a feeling it will be the big pneumatic upright. Which I'm prepping a controller conversion for to allow him to do midi with it to test playback before making a new roll. The controls all work but I need to replace one of the relays...

    And now you know why that's the one we'll likely end up taking (and its also one of the bigger ones).

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