 Good morning America! Hello, are you ready? I can go. Oh good morning, you're with Olivier. You're here with Boniface. Good morning America, it's Germain. And we're here helping out at the one band telling a story of old Norton through music. That's what we do. Yeah, I love music. I love music too, and he play guitar. We love stories. Yeah, he's sad. This is Brian. Hi, thanks for doing this. Ah yeah, you're welcome. My question is like what is the work you're doing today? Okay, well we've got a piano here at the Boys and Girls Club and it's been played by thousands of kids and it's an awesome piano, but unfortunately it was damaged by some water and so it became a piano that was almost okay but would cost thousands of dollars to repair. So we figured we had to get rid of it and basically throw it away and rather than just throw it in the dumpster and get rid of it, we would take it apart and try to understand how the piano works and then save some of the parts so that we could use them in the club and then move on to a new piano. So we've got some club members who are helping us out and they're taking the piano apart. Nice, that's really impressive. What's how old is the piano dino? Well the fun thing about pianos is that people who work on them and who build them right little notes to each other inside them. So deep inside this piano there was one note that was handwritten and it said 1978. So that might be the person who built the piano in 1978 or it might have been somebody who worked on it or tuned it. I think the piano is probably from the middle of the last century between 1950 and 1970 but I'm not sure. So it's not a really old piano but it's older than most of us. Wow, that's really old. So can you tell me in details what you guys do here? Okay, so the piano we slowly took it apart with all the screws that are involved in holding it together and we took all the strings apart and there are 88 keys and many of those keys have three strings. So there's probably about 200 between 200 and 300 strings on this piano and we had to take each one and loosen the tension on them because tight strings can snap and it's dangerous. So we had to make sure we loosened them and so now we're just trying to figure out how it was put together and there are a lot of screws that we're taking out but we're kind of actually figuring it out as we go because we've never done this before. Oh, that's really impressive. How long do you think it's going to take to put it all back together? Oh my goodness! Okay, well that's an important thing. This piano is doomed. It is not going back together. Because of the cost of repairing it we figured we're just going to save some of the parts and the rest are going to be thrown in the dumpster or burned or recycled. So this piano will never be played again. We had a very sweet moment when various people came and played the very last tune that was ever played on this piano and I think Nalabwe was actually the one who played the very last and so now this piano is going off into history and all we have are the memories of it. Wow, it's going to be like a really big piece of history. I bet. Well, it's nice because things are supposed to be used and pianos are supposed to be played by people and especially young people. Now the one band and our music programs here are all intended to make sure that young people have the opportunity to play music. And so this piano will never be played again but we did have a new piano donated to our program and it's an electronic piano but it is a really good one for young people to play on. So we move forward. Nice, that's really good. How is working going? It's good. The bottom ones that are under the piano are really hard to do and since they're really rusty it's really hard to get them out so it takes a lot of power. Yeah. And also the strings since only one of them was working after we did it all you had to loosen it and now I'm trying to get those screws out which is really hard with any of them so yeah. How much time do you think it has taken you guys to actually try not to take it apart since? About three hours maybe. Three hours, that's a lot of hours. Wow, it's like really hard to take apart I can see. Yeah, it's very nice. Well it was... Okay, hi. I'm glad we're here, right? So... How long did it take you guys to... I mean you haven't finished obviously but like how long have you guys been on it working on the piano like taking the parts apart? We started at nine and I don't know what time it is right now. It's at 10.48. Then we've been working for an hour and 48. Dang. That's nice. Are you like part of the band? Or are you just like helping out? No, I'm just helping out. I mean he used to be my piano teacher I used to play piano with him. Are you really good at it? Oh, you just like stop doing it and you're like God, that's just boring. I'm good but I'm not that good. Well, you gotta start from somewhere, right? Yeah, nice. Do you have a piano at home or just like it was just here? What? Oh, nice. Oh well, it was nice meeting you. Oliver, I've been working on a song in French. Can I sing it for you? And he's like looked at me like, well, you're crazy. Okay, give it a try. And so I sang the song and he looked at me and he said it sounds like you're singing French in English. And I was like, okay, okay, we'll have a good day. Hi, you're with your man. I'm Aaron. Hi, Aaron. How long have you been working at the Boys and Girls Club? Man, it's been a minute, like almost five years now. Almost five years, it's crazy. Wow, that's crazy, yeah. How do you like the job? I like it a lot, man. It keeps me on my toes. It's great to see everyone grow up and get a little better every day. Yeah, that's really nice. I bet. Do you enjoy being here? I do, I do. Most days, sometimes it gets a little loud but we deal with it, you know what I'm saying? If it gets too loud, you know, I just throw these drawings on it. I can't hear anything. I can't hear any of these kids. It's really nice, full taking your time out and working with kids. It's really nice. Thank you, man. So, the main part of this interview is just about the one band. How much do you like the one band? They're great. I would see them every night if I could. Once they're next performance, I'd love to go check it out. Oh, nice. The main part of it is the piano. The piano has some history as I can tell but they're taking part because it had some issues ups and downs and it's pretty old. Can you tell your side of it? Well, I love the piano. I played it whenever I could. Last summer or two summers ago the air conditioner dripped all over it which water is not good for pianos. So, I guess now you guys are taking the part making quick work of it. Why don't you guys? It's really sad though to see something just go like that and it's like really old and you just keep in touch until they're in. The water got to it. You said you play piano. Yeah, a little bit more. That's a hard piano to play. Yeah. Do you play other instruments? A little bit of the trumpet. I pray guitar but I'm not good at it. Not yet. You guys keep working. I've been playing it for a year and it's like yeah. It'll come. I hope it will. It was nice talking to you. Thank you.