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When Terry Harper first set foot inside the Sydney Opera House it was an "empty cavern". He would spend a lifetime inside its venues making sure every piano note was perfect.
For more than a quarter-century, Tim Watts has helped area musicians create beautiful music. Watts is not a music teacher, accompanist or even a soloist. He is a piano tuner who has been working ...
Blood Orange creator Dev Hynes has long cited Philip Glass as an influence, including in his late 2013 FADER cover story. “The people I’ve looked up to my whole life, Philip Glass, Arthur ...
On a main road in York, a few feet from heavy traffic and young people trudging off to university, you will find Mike Derrett and his pianos. His shop used to be a hairdressers. The drying hoods ...
Inspired Life An airport piano was filthy and out of tune. He fixed it during a layover. “It was in very rough shape: Dust was everywhere, and there was a gluey substance under the keys that ...
I recently acquired an old piano, I stripped it back to usable wood I could recycle. This weeks project I make a lamp recycling what was some of the tuner from inside the piano, and yes it took me ...
The man behind a piano tuning mystery at the Gina Bachauer Piano Foundation has finally come forward.
Rebecca Rumfellow is a 26-year-old piano technician, also called piano tuner, at O'Neill's Music House. Here, she works on tuning a baby grand piano in the music store's back room.
What a find of previously unreleased treasures. Almost 30 years ago the Dublin songwriter Philip Chevron, of The Pogues, asked the journalist Declan Lynch to help him realise a creative project he ...
THEY call him the Piano Man. We spotted 74-year-old Edgardo M. Arceo tuning a Yamaha grand piano at the lobby of Luxent Hotel in Quezon City recently. He told Businessmirror that he started tuning ...
Love him or hate him, Philip Glass is inescapable. His 20 piano etudes have become essential listening, his impact on three generations of artists indelible.