Pianos and Guns

Today we visited the Brigham Larson Pianos store, where Ezzy, one of the family, works at refurbishing pianos of all kinds since 1921. Her specialty is the keys, routing, shaping, resurfacing, and replacing keys that are worn out in a customer's piano.

To say this store/factory is amazing would be a gross understatement. It is world-famous with pianos being shipped in for repair or refurbishment from all over the world. Pianos are complicated instruments with hundreds of parts and pieces. A few pictures follow:

One of the many, many storerooms of parts.

Ezzy on the left, introducing us to one of the 40 employees that work at BLP.

This is a demo unit showing some of the complicated parts. The oval white pieces, that strike the piano strings, are made of lambs wool.

This 1901 Steinway piano is from Africa, one of two in existance and valued at over $300,000 ... It is hand made of Rosewood. Our tour guide, Ezzy, is on the right.

We also visited the biggest gun store I've ever seen called Gunnies Guns and Western Wear ... They stock everything from country clothing to cowboy buckles and boots on one side of the store. The other side appears to contain every firearm made including suppressors, and every gun part or shooting accessory you might want or need.

Later this week, we are off to a small town of 250 residents called Wallsburg established in 1861, and part of the Salt Lake City metropolitan area. The town is made up of 22 buildings of antiques.  I'll be looking for anything related to Morse code, of course. This should be fun. Stay tuned ...