Steinway trained Concert Piano Technician and Master Tuner serving the greater Los Angeles area since 1980.
11/22/2013
FrankenSteinway - Episode 5 http://wp.me/p3EgZZ-gd
FrankenSteinway - Episode 5 Scalpels and Scruples (From the Diary of a Mad Piano Technician) As you will clearly see in the photographic documentation presented in this and previous entries, we have managed to achieve significant progress toward our goal of reviving this retched… [ 582 more words. ]
11/10/2013
FrankenSteinway - Episode 4 http://wp.me/p3EgZZ-fb
FrankenSteinway - Episode 4 Reconstructive Surgery (From the Diary of a Mad Piano Technician) Continuing with our skeletal reparations after joining the inner layers of the rim (see Episode 3), we sculpted a rather large section of new bone (hardwood) to replace the missing …… [ 482 more words. ]
11/01/2013
FrankenSteinway Episode 3 http://wp.me/p3EgZZ-eJ
FrankenSteinway Episode 3 Braces & Bolts (From the Diary of a Mad Piano Technician) Having cleaned and disinfected the victim, we were now confronted with one of our more perplexing problems. Being faced with layers of missing and/or distorted skeletal elements, we were… [ 417 more words. ]
10/22/2013
FrankenSteinway - Episode 2
FrankenSteinway - Episode 2 Skin and Bones (from the diary of a mad piano technician) In order to begin my experiment, I first needed to remove all of the rotted flesh from our corps and determine if there was anything salvageable beneath it. … Continue reading →
10/16/2013
FrankenSteinway
FrankenSteinway FrankenSteinway (From the Diary of a Mad Piano Technician) Episode 1 – Corpus After many years of struggling to recuperate patients with terminal and calamitous ailments, I was recently confronted with a dilemma that I would soon realized to be … Continue…
10/01/2013
Pop Quiz
Pop Quiz One of the first questions I ask when visiting a new customer is “Aside from tuning, are there any specific problems with the piano that you’d like me to address?” With older pianos there is often a litany of complaints … Continue reading →
09/20/2013
Aliens in the Action
Aliens in the Action After visiting a friend in an old apartment building downtown on a cool and cloudless summer evening, I walk downstairs to the lobby and, as I near the front door, I hear a loud rumbling sound and people screaming outside. … Continue reading →
09/14/2013
Premonition
Premonition This story is only related to piano tuning in that its primary elements occurred on either side of a tuning appointment, rather like an inexplicable sandwich of paranormal bread. It begins, oddly enough, with an unforgettable dream (from which I ……
09/09/2013
Mrs. Hot Tub
Mrs. Hot Tub Years ago, I went to a tuning outside of a small town in West Michigan, in the heart of the Bible Belt. My customer was an average looking middle aged woman, who worked as a truck driver. She had an … Continue reading →
09/07/2013
Party of Five?
Party of Five? I was inspired to write this story by a fellow technicians’ comment about the unusual people she’s met during her many years in the field. Before I dive in, however, I want to reiterate my concern for maintaining the anonymity … Continue reading →
09/06/2013
New Piano Customer
New Piano Customer This link was sent to me by a fellow piano technician from Michigan. It’s one of the funniest things I’ve seen on YouTube. It portrays a virtual cornucopia of ridiculous requests that we, as service providers, encounter from an incredibly … Continue…
08/21/2013
Dark Shadows
Dark Shadows I’d like you to consider, for a moment, what it’s like to work for professional musicians. Most of them are self absorbed (myself included) and surrounded by an exclusive entourage of obsessive staff who are dedicated to protecting their image … Continue…
