It is a well-written collection of episodes in the career of a tuner, almost in the same class as James Herriot, but it is a bit sad, to me.” Roderic P. The book seems less about the tuning than about the people and places where the pianos are and how the pianos got there. I also am a tuner and can understand what the author is doing and saying. The author truly loves what she does, and she loves the people whose pianos she tunes.” Amazon customerĤ star review! “I happened upon this book while doing a search. Smith VINE VOICEĥ star review! “This book is wonderful, gentle and moving. And the reader has to wonder: is Campbell of a dying breed, a fading past? As electronics and computers take over our lives, will our need for piano tuners diminish in return? After reading this book, one hopes not.” Corinne H. Issuing death sentences on mistreated instruments - ones left too long exposed to the elements (dirt floors, barns, mice, snakes (!), extreme humidity, or extreme temperatures) - is seemingly the toughest part of her job, especially if it means removing the possibility of music from a deserving but impoverished home. Still, one woman can only do so much, and Campbell can’t create a concert-hall Steinway from a rinkey-tink mouse-house spinet. Each has it own unique demands and to say she has seen a wide variety of keyboards is the ultimate understatement. She visits and performs her work at a variety of venues: private homes of all kinds, churches, schools, concert halls. Hers is the kind of job that gets her out and traveling through the landscape, which she seems to enjoy almost as much as the pianos and people she meets along the way.
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“I sometimes see my professional duty as an almost sacred task, a ministration to eternal muses which give music to speak what words cannot say in questions or answers that are never clearly formed.” (page 8) Wow! We accompany her on this noble mission as she travels the back roads of Arkansas to get to her customers - the payers as well as the players. Thankfully, Denele Pitts Campbell shares some of her experiences with us in this lovely memoir. Available at Amazon, hardcover.ĥ star review! “Very few of us have an inkling of what a piano tuner’s duties might entail. Where music is the common language of rich and poor, young and old, simple and sophisticated, the piano tuner wrests harmonious performance from these complicated Victorian machines. Rather, Notes of a Piano Tuner invites the reader to a privileged view of the idiosyncrasies of human nature as the author travels on her daily rounds from the concert halls of the thriving cities to one-room churches on isolated dirt roads. The peculiar craft of piano tuning is not the actual subject of this tidy collection of lyrical essays set in the Arkansas Ozarks.
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