Well, if Mr. Bondi is fessing up, I guess I will also. Amateur career: Wooden Sailboat Rebuilder. First career: Forestry - trees are made of wood. Second career: Hydrogeologist - lots of rocks. Third career: Piano Technician - pianos are made of wood and I do rock-solid tunings! I suspect my boat work experience has did more to prepare me for working on pianos than the other school-taught careers. Actually, it was boats that helped me make the decision to get into piano technology. I still remember that day. I was trying to figure out what I wanted to be when I grew up. And then it dawned on me (the evening after the piano tech had just tuned our brand-new 1098): pianos are just like boats! Both are finely crafted of wood and metal. Many of both are 50 or 100+ years old. Both have lots of paint and varnish on them. And the most important of all - the one that took me hook, line and sinker - the musty insides of an old upright smells quite a bit like the bilges of an old (healthy) wooden boat! I had never played a note on a piano, much less ever seen the inside of a piano until after we bought our new 1098. And that was just a couple months before I decided to study piano technology. Six months later I was tuning up a storm..... maybe not real well, but I was tuning! Terry Farrell > I started out being a piano player out of college..went to work for GE > in a Plastics plant for a few too many years still playing when I could, > then decided that I needed to get back to do what I do best..and that > was play..but then I moved to Florida, where I discovered that being a > full-time musician was going to lead me into poverty..so..here I am..not > living in poverty, in demand, and fairly happy. > > It feels like I've just been to the therapist! > > Phil Bondi(Fl) > > > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives >
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