Thursday, April 26, 2007

Monday, April 23, 2007

Mr D found my tuning antics worthy of recording


As I was tuning, I felt I was being watched... I looked to my left and saw my customer stealthily videotaping me... so I took his picture :)

Saturday, April 21, 2007

From the police novel "The Choirboys"

"The tired eyed woman had called them to report that her teenage daughter had threatened to run off with a forty-nine year old piano tuner who lived next door." —p. 180

Checking the tuning


Moments like this keep me tuning pianos after three decades!

Friday, April 20, 2007

Piano Dropper part deux


Here is a picture of the incident.

Friday, April 06, 2007

The technician before me attacked the problem of a cracked bass bridge by putting blocks of wood on top of the bridge and underneath the strings. That couldn't have been easy to do.

Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Piano tuning on the Amazing Race

On a recent episode of The Amazing Race, four pairs of contestants had to tune a string on a piano. (One of them broke it!) Click here to read more.

Sunday, April 01, 2007

Tom & Jerry cartoon - "Piano Tooners"


Piano Tooners (1932)
Thanks to San French for telling me about this cartoon