RE: https://beige.party/@fuzzy/116803644495788173

3/…

The 1970s. Early childhood. I remember occasional home visits from a blind piano tuner.

We also had a Farfisa electric organ. Then, in my early teens, I occasionally played a Hammond organ (badly) at a pub on Canvey Island. Tremolo involved some colossal thing rotating, I guess that it was a Leslie speaker <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_speaker>.

In my late teens, a Hohner Clavinet. Nice idea, but it was so heavy that when I sulkily quit a band, during rehearsal, I had to pay a passing schoolchild fifty pence to help me carry it to a bus stop.

Now: my sister and her husband adore their grandchildren, who enjoy playing piano. They also discarded a traditional upright piano, non-electric, years before the grandchildren were born.

I still have my grandparents' piano, which hasn't been tuned since the 1970s.

Fifty years later: in the absence of traditional pianos to tune, what profession might the same blind person choose? Would it involve AI? I wonder.

I'm nostalgic about the past, but future technologies have been making traditional stuff redundant for decades.

With regard to the piano tuning profession: I'm a number one offender, because I never bothered to pay someone.

#AI #piano #electronic #Hammond #Farfisa #tremolo #Leslie

Last night I installed some low voltage ambient lighting in the piano. Does it look good? : }

#music #piano #studio

Alt...

Upright piano with glowing lights.