Day 26.

After the two days off for Easter it was back to work today. My task was to take the bass mechanism out of an accordion. A customer had dropped their accordion and the body had cracked & broken on the bass side, so we had to take the mechanism out in order to send that side of the body away for repair. The bass mechanism of an accordion consists of lots of long, thin rods, which interlock via several arms on the rods. A lot of the removal process is easy but there are some rods that appear impossible to remove - they eventually come free after a bit of jiggling. Erica came to the shop and started demounting reeds from reed blocks - a strange thing to see (!) - before her, Ivana and I went to the supermarket.
When we got back I cooked some beef chunks I'd bought and made a beef, mushroom and tomato sauce for my tea. My lunch was only salad and focaccia.
Soon it was time to return to the shop, where I quickly finished removing the bass mechanism. Claudio and I didn't do anymore work after that, and we closed just before 5 as Claudio, Ivana and Erica had to go to Torino to sort out Simone's new flat.
I took a piano accordion home so I could play some folk stuff for fun. Back at the flat I played said accordion before powering up the hop to heat up my majestic sauce and some pasta. The sauce had had a lot of cooking time so was now thick and gloopy and dark. It was amazing! I followed it with some ice cream.

Not a particularly interesting post today, I'm afraid. Here's to better things tomorrow.

Buona serata x