One of music’s great joys is the sound of a well-tuned acoustic instrument. Everything from guitars to drums to pianos all come to life when they’re properly tuned, but they can also stand out like a ...
WILLMAR — Dennis Benson has tuned pianos for celebrities including Loretta Lynn, Ronnie Milsap, Crystal Gayle and Wayne Newton prior to their concerts at regional venues. One time, before a duet by ...
Like blacksmithing and letter writing, the profession of piano tuner has been added to the list of dying arts. The average American piano tuner is between 55 and 60 years old. Seattle’s 70-year-old ...
From performers to painters, artists of all genres have endured an economic year like no other. This month we've been asking them about their experiences for our series “The Creative Grind.” Today we ...
[JanHerman] knows that tuning musical instruments is all about precision and that precision is measured in a logarithmic unit called a cent. A cheap tuner unit might be accurate to 1.5 cents which ...
(This article is part of a three-part series about behind-the-scenes at Tanglewood, the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.) LENOX – When pianist Daniil Trifonov sat down to play Prokofiev’s ...
Piano technology is an unregulated trade, and a piano tuner is not required to be a guild member. For its roughly 4,000 members, though, the guild has set its own standards of quality. In addition to ...
Pianos may have somewhat gone out of vogue with today's endless supply of other diversions, but Robert Sims still stays busy keeping the ivories in tune all over the city. Mr. Sims said when he ...
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