Post-treatment review

The tuner has come and gone, and the result is promising. While we were chatting before he started working, the tuner mentioned that he doesn’t usually trust treatments like this to work, but that it was certainly worth a try, especially given the state of the...

Piano note

The piano is once again upright. I’ve got a tuning scheduled for Wednesday morning with the same tuner as last time, and he’s aware that I did the CA treatment. I did a quick check of the state of the tuning, and A4 is almost imperceptibly off of A440, so...

Book fetish

Those who know me know that I have a thing about books that borders on fetish. I love buying and owning books. Consequently, I never have enough shelf space. (I recently bought a new 6ft bookcase that was filled instantly with the overflow from my other shelves...

My poor pianos

Since I moved to New York, I’ve had poor luck with pianos. I started off with an electric keyboard – the Yamaha DGX-505, which was an OK stop-gap until I bought a real piano. The Yamaha stayed with me for three years and two apartments: my first, beautiful...

Shout out

Congratulations are in order! Harold Meltzer (who is, incidentally, a web client of mine – I help with maintenance, the design isn’t mine) was a finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in Music. I happened to be at the premiere of Brion, the work that earned...