What we have learned hiring instruments to shoots: which piece suits which scene, what fits where, and what usually goes wrong.
Plexi, JCM800, Silver Jubilee, 30th Anniversary — how to read the decade off the front of an amp, what a cabinet weighs, and why a 100 W Marshall cannot play in a shot with dialogue.
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Tuning pins that will not hold pitch, woodworm that spreads to everything nearby, moths in the felts and cracked soundboards — what the price of a cheap piano is actually telling you.
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Tuning twice a year, humidity between 45% and 55%, moves from €150 to €500 — and why the piano bought on Friday is not in tune on Monday.
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From the b3 to the C7X: sizes, weights, sound, finishes, Silent and TransAcoustic — and why two 121 cm uprights are neither the same piano nor the same insurance value.
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