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[Stephen Hill]

From: Stephen Hill <weltuned at comcast.net>
Date: June 3, 2006 4:51:57 PM MDT
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: my new career

Hello List,

Just introducing myself.  Technician in training.  Gave up 20 year  
career as
an airline mechanic, to tune and repair pianos.  Sound crazy?   
Really, the two
are much closer than one may realize.  Jet engines require a certain  
amount
of anal retentiveness as does a competent RPT.   Pianos are  
essentially machines,
just made out of different materials, and produce music instead of  
thrust.  So, I've
come full circle now, from a piano performance major in college,  
through a career
in aviation, and now back to a music related career.  Couldn't be  
happier.  I've
always been interested in how pianos work, since a little boy, and  
have a wonderful
1923 S&S M as my primary practice piano.

Potter is my school of choice, and besides the Steinway, I have a  
Baldwin L, and a
M&H 50 that I regularly keep in shape.  Have yet to tune for pay, but  
that will come.
In the meantime, study, study, and study some more, and practice with  
that tuning
hammer.  I had a fear of replacing a broken string, so I overcame  
that by restringing
my Steinway.  No more fear!  Was interesting job, and I also rescaled  
it to factory
specs.  It only had 6 wire sizes!  Supposed to be 12.  End result is  
spectacular, and the
thing never sounded so good.  (well, probably did when new, but I  
wasn't around then)
Hopefully, I'll meet some of you someday.

Regards, Steve

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