A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to move two pianos: a Baldwin from Franklin which I picked up and delivered to a client of mine, and an antique Vose and Sons that I took from the client and brought back to my workshop. Since I was on vacation last week (which you can read about here) and was organizing the workshop and ordering tools this week, I hadn't gotten the chance to open up and dig into this new piano until yesterday.The piano is absolutely deserving of its antique status; while t
A few months ago, I decided that I wanted to help out my grandmother on her turkey farm. New turkey babies come in every three months, so I took time out this May to come and help during prep week in her barn in Bentonville, Arkansas. A lot of this work involved cleaning drinkers, little plastic bowls that the turkeys drink from. I also helped with filters for the heat lamps (since baby birds need to stay warm to survive until they can grow their feathers). When we weren't in the barn, we were o
I recently got to tune for my alma mater, Mt Juliet High School, on behalf of AMO Pianos and it brought me so much joy to be back helping my old music teachers. I was there to tune their Charles Walter upright in preparation for their choir concert on May 9th; it was so nice to get to see the music teachers again!I went to MJHS for all four years of my high school career, and I was very involved in the music programs. I joined the concert band in my freshman year, and the marching and jazz bands
Every now and then, a piano string breaks and the technician has the option to replace it, or try to splice it. This is the story of my first spliced string.
