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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: RE: Thanks to Charlie F posted by ahendler on June 27, 2015 at 15:56:04:
who recently passed away. Yoshi Nishimura was supposed to be able to perform miracles and was in high demand, although I never met the man. Vladimir Askenazy has a summer home here and after he tuned the piano here, Askenazy flew him to Iceland to tune his piano there and offered him the job of going on tour with him.High praise for a local boy.
Wish I knew what I know now and had a chance to talk to him.
A customer of mine had a Bechstein bought from the Dutch German Embassy just before the war when they were evacuating. Tuned to A=445 they could never play it for accompaniment, because no other tuner wanted the job, claiming that it could damage the harp. Yoshi did it in a couple of hours.
Another friend who teaches music in High school got approached by a local bank which had foreclosed on a home and whose owners had left a Baldwin grand piano. they offered it to him for free, just take it away. Badly out of tune, he called Yoshi and his son came over, took note of the serial numbers and left. Yoshi came over a hour later to examine the instrument himself.
Apparently he had written those numbers because he had installed a Steinway action into the Baldwin. He came the next day, tuned and cleaned up the instrument spending nearly all day in the process and charged only his normal fee !!!
Some interesting personalities abound in the field ( or any field, for that matter). Sometimes all you have to do is to look....
Edits: 06/28/15
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Follow Ups
- We had a local tuner - unclestu 16:19:46 06/27/15 (3)
- RE: Baldwin - unclestu 11:30:58 06/28/15 (0)
- I believe that David Hancock's piano was a Baldwin with a Steinway action - John Marks 09:26:04 06/28/15 (0)
- And My Thanks Back To You, UncleStu, For Your Yoshi Memories - Charlie F. 19:51:59 06/27/15 (0)
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