It is only because my stubbornness outweighs my hubris that I have made any progress at all. My unisons are better after months of practice. The pitches don’t always stay where I put them, but they wander less far, less often. Mark vouched for me, and Schaff sold me a better hammer. Things are going well. However, this morning’s lesson revealed a vexing new problem…
Read MoreMy first pandemic purchase was a basic piano tuning kit: student-grade hammer, strip mute, six rubber mutes. I had neglected to have my Steinway tuned for more than two years. Shameful. Shameless! I had excuses: no money, no time, my piano tuner moved, the dog ate my phone book… And so the Chocolate Box, as my friend Sakura calls my piano, languished…