I’ve tuned pianos for forty-three years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Concert grands in theatres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Baby grands in churches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Uprights that smelled faintly of mouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’ve learned every instrument lies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wood swells.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Steel stretches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Humidity invents new stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Musicians ask what I’ve learned after spending my life around performers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Usually, they’re hoping I’ll tell them something like genius is mysterious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It isn’t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It’s punctual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The mysterious part is character.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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