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Tuesday, October 18, 2005
Piano Tuning
I wonder why music schools continue to graduate piano majors year after year without giving them the ability to tune their own instruments. I go to gigs and see guitarists, drummers, saxophonists, etc. tuning their instruments. Why is piano tuning not required for pianists in every music school? Wouldn't it make life easier for pianists to be able to tune a piano before a gig? And wouldn't it make life much easier for bands that have to endure out of tune pianos through entire gigs? I played a gig for 3 months, 7 nights a week at the New York Bar (Park Hyatt Hotel) in Tokyo this year. They tuned the piano only 1 or 2 times in three months (only after we begged, demanded, etc). They said it's too expensive to tune the piano. Back in good 'ole West Virginia it costs me $45 to get the piano tuned. Anyway, it seems like a lot of problems could be avoided if music schools properly prepared musicians to operate in the "real" world.
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