How I restored a piano in 9 months

Anton Malinskiy
23 min readMar 23, 2020

If we’re talking about a laptop, then leaving it alone for a couple of years would do little damage: your battery will be dead, but you can quickly charge it. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work the same for a musical instrument such as a piano.

In August 2019, I found an old piano that seemed to be forgotten about. A bit of context here, my primary role at work is as a Principal Software Engineer (Keyword…

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Anton Malinskiy

Software engineer & IT conference speaker; Landscape photographer + occasional portraits; Music teacher: piano guitar violin; Bike traveller, gymkhana