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We have an old upright Mathushek piano that I bought for 99 bucks at a Salvation Army for Valentine’s Day when my girlfriend—she’s my wife now—and I were seniors in college. It’s really cool. It must’ve originally had real ivory keys, but when I bought it, it was already just wooden keys with marks where your fingers go, especially in the middle. Zach Gill, who plays piano in my band, loves that thing.
You can fix and auto-tune everything and put it all in perfect time, but I try my best to avoid that stuff because of how…