Is Refinishing Pianos a Real Thing?

This is a picture of the refinished piano in my parents’ home. It’s an old upright that had been a player piano. I learned to play beginning in third grade, one hand and one note at a time. Sometimes practicing under protest, I eventually graduated to both hands playing hymns and Top 40 songs from the sixties and seventies.

In Forever Music, Sam Daniels, an impetuous helper, decides to refinish an antiqued green piano so that Merritt Hastings will accept it and enjoy teaching piano lessons on it...