Tuning a piano ‘moulds the mind’
Tuning a piano ‘moulds the mind’
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PERFECT PIANO
PERFECT A concept of perfection… expands from the philosophical to…. the legal to… the grammatical to… mathematical to… biological and also to the musical. In music exists… the perfect interval- octave fifth fourth and perfect unison. Of course the piano tuner is perpetually in pursuit of the perfect tuning for each and every tuning as … Read more
by Ear
[youtube id=”w1dDFjuu_To” align=”center” mode=”lazyload” autoplay=”no” aspect_ratio=”16:9″ maxwidth=”999″] When any piano tuner you might meet exclaims that he or she is an aural tuner or tunes a piano only “by ear”or uses only the ear with a tuning fork the imagination could run wild thinking what “by ear” could or might mean. Certainly this master piano … Read more
WILLIAM McCORMICK REMEMBERED
I was hired as a piano tuner-technician upon completion of my schooling at Westchester Universities All-Steinway School of Music and Bostons North Bennet Street School, AN EDUCATION IN CRAFTSMANSHIP, by William McCormick serveral years after he purchased Jordan Kitts Music. Although I worked for “Kitts” for only three years my core skills were honed at … Read more
