What kinds of solutions do I create in my work as a piano technician? It all depends on the stories of my clients.
You know how our fast-paced modern world can tend to dull the senses? And as a result people may be feeling more and more disconnected from everything nowadays? I’m here to help bring some of that sensitivity back to you, through being able to appreciate a piano that is beautifully maintained.
To recognize beauty anywhere, first rest— one must look with fresh open eyes. One must be silent inside, able to receive the calm, the peacefulness, or the absence of motion first, to then perceive what exists that is beautiful out there and moves us. Music feeds the soul. Sitting down to play your well-maintained piano will be a beautiful experience.
In our busy world, full of distractions, your daily life can be very noisy and overblow the ears and mind, and we may easily loose touch with how to listen. I’m here to help everyone listen more deeply, not exclusively outwardly, but as an indirect consequence, also inwardly.
Maybe you’re searching for an activity to enrich your life, or you think that playing your piano would be more fulfilling after it’s tuned, and I’m there for you to make sure your piano is in the proper condition, or help in your search to find an instrument that would suit your needs.
Your piano is like your heart. Your tuner should work on your piano almost as if it were your heart.
Perhaps you are a teacher or institution with needs to maintain your pianos in top shape. I am able to assist you meet your working goals by keeping your instruments in excellent condition, whichever kinds of service plans it might entail.
Your piano is your friend no matter what.
You could be a parent with students enrolled in lessons, and you’re trying to encourage the value of lifelong learning in music. My professional piano services will help ensure the piano sounds and functions correctly, so that education can occur with the highest quality.
Your piano deserves you.
Perhaps you’ve just ignored your piano for many years, and you feel you want to take better care of it. I’m here to see what can be done to improve the situation.
Allow me to be your guide as you achieve whatever it is you want in life from your unique instrument. Like any guide, it’s helpful to start with a plan:
Step 1: Have me service your piano.
Step 2: Get inspired to play more. Connect with making music from it on a deeper level.
Step 3: Share the experience with your friends, colleagues, or family. Enjoy the piano in your life more.
Remember, being a successful pianist is about discovering music that enhances your life.
Many people feel the need to connect with their own creativity and senses a little better nowadays. You deserve to be centered and grounded by the sacred experience of coming together with your piano, which is why Adrian’s Piano Services exists to help you appreciate your instrument and trust that it’s receiving excellent care. By making an investment in having me tune your piano, you’ll be sowing the seeds of greater sensitivity, musical appreciation, and balance, in your life or your work.
I look forward to maintaining your piano.
Here are several ideas about the piano I find motivating:
“Piano playing as an art is not entirely auditory in character, but appeals also to other sense departments. Chief among those are the kinesthetic and the visual senses, which are of very decided importance.” — Otto Ortmann, The Physical Basis of Piano Touch and Tone (1925)
“Vibration also rests below the line of audible perception, often occuring as subliminal and tactile shifts in energy and force. For this reason, vibration is an influential, sensual flux performing as a vital contour to the psychodynamics of the emotional self.” — Brandon Labelle, Acoustic Territories
“Those dancing chips, o’er whom thy fingers walk with gentle gait, making dead wood more blessed than living lips.”—William Shakespeare, Sonnet 128
“I proceed through a terrain nexus, . . . a single voice at the tips of the fingers, going for each next note in sayings just now and just then, just this soft and just this hard, just here and just there, with definiteness of aim throughout, taking my fingers to places, so to speak, and in being guided, so do speak. I sing with my fingers.”—David Sudnow, Ways of the Hand
“The [pianist] has telepathic ability. If the composer has written something impossible to realize on the piano, the performer simply hypnotizes you, and you think you are hearing it: molto cantando, quasi flauto, quasi violino, quasi corno, con fuoco, con amore, piu dolce, and all the rest. . . . The pianist . . . with his or her infallible ESP always knows . . . “—Ivor Darreg, Shall We Improve the Piano?
“There are states of consciousness in which you can listen to sound and realize that that is the whole point of being alive, just to go with this particular energy manifestation that is happening right at this moment.”—Alan Watts
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