Are you ready for a new round of nerdy piano book recommendations? Of course you are! #piano #book #bookstagram #reading #nerd #history #classicalmusic #chopin #music #musicology #booknerd #nowreading via Instagram https://ift.tt/2M6uCix A super cool piano technicians forum recently pointed me to five piano related books that I have yet to read, and I’ll be sure …
Clouds, Rain, and Evergreens. It doesn’t get any more PNW than this.
Player pianos have come a long way since they were invented in the late 1800s, but I came across an old-school system that merges the old with the new in a really cool way. It turns out the owner is a retired (old school) player piano technician who had his Mason & Hamlin upright with …
I’ve never been one of those people who spends the weekend antique-ing or garage sale-ing, but yesterday I spent a large portion of my day tracking down an amazing deal on autoharps at an estate sale. Now, autoharps may not be pianos, but they’re still pretty cool. They’re great instruments for kids and music education, …
I came across this autograph in a piano today and, while I’m no handwriting expert, it looks identical to the official Jose Iturbi autographs I found on Google. via IFTTT I wish this Baldwin Acrosonic console that my clients in West Linn, Oregon recently got for free could tell the story of how one of …
Part of that is because although it is a critical part of what allows a piano to feel and sound its best, regulation is just not something most people have heard of, kind of like my sister’s former job title of “actuarial analyst”. But it’s also because there’s way more to it than what my distilled one sentence definition of “adjusting the many parts of the playing mechanism, called the action, in order to make the touch consistent and optimally responsive” implies.
Now a bona fide rock star as the keyboard player for the hit band the X Ambassadors, Casey no longer tunes pianos for a living, but is on the road for what seems to be 362 out of 365 days of the year, touring and performing with his band. This past weekend, in Portland for a show headlining the Widmer Brothers Oktoberfest in downtown Portland, Casey and his brother Sam, the lead singer of the band, generously detoured (ha! puns) to the ‘Couve for a few hours to perform as part of a benefit show for the Piano Hospital.
I was out and about today and walked by the Covington House, a historic log cabin situated a bit north of downtown Vancouver, WA. Lo and behold, what did I discover when I read the placard in front of the building? That it apparently “housed the first piano in the Oregon Country.” My inner piano …
