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unless you can capture the original sound you are wasting your time, well unless you are in recording what's now commercial audio. i have been in the studio with some people and what they sung to...

condenser mics are fine but do not like "sharp attack" audio as they tend to compress the audio and make it sound metallic.
but if a piano was awful to mic up a pipe organ was a frickin nightmare...

i had to microphone up one years ago, it was a cast iron frame, is this bronze/brass or plated iron ??
in the end i fitted a boundary layer mic to the underside of the lid, worked bloody well too