Piano students are taught the musical alphabet early on. A,B,C,D,E,F,G are the basic elements of all music. Some of my piano students wanted to play H after G instead of A, but it wasn’t there.
My husband learned the musical alphabet in a unique way. The piano repair man wanted to order counter weights and charge us a thousand dollars to install them om my digital, baby grand piano. After watching him remove and replace the black and white keys, Gale felt he could fix the clunk in the black keys himself. When the man left, Gale ordered the counter weights from the manufacture.
When they arrived, he removed all the keys and replaced flawed counter weights as suggested by the manufacturer when we called. He noticed an A, B, C, D, E, F or G imprinted at the top of each white key as he replaced them on the board. Two or three times he asked, “What comes after G?”
After putting it back together, he nudged the keyboard into the piano. I played a song and the notes didn’t clunk. I’m proud of the great job he did, even if it took all day and all evening.
