Anyone with a piano at home can tell stories about piano tuners — or piano technicians, as they prefer to be called. In more than a dozen years of producing classical music here at NPR, I have a few stories myself about brilliant but picky pianists and the extraordinary demands they’ve made on our piano technicians. Like the time I had to page the entire building in search of a hairdryer so the felt hammers in the piano’s guts could get a blow-dry.
Now there’s a new feature-length documentary that renders any average pianist vs. piano technician nightmare utterly trivial.Pianomania, directed by Lilian Franck and Robert Cibis, takes persnickety to a new pinnacle. C lick HERE to read more…
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