The quiet between tuning sessions
Itâs 6:47 a.m. and I just finished adjusting the A4 on a Steinway in a house where no one else is awake yet. The room smells like old paper and faint dust â not unpleasant, just⊠remembered. I sat for a minute with my hands still on the keys, listening to the way the sustain pedal held the last note like it was reluctant to let go. Thatâs the thing about tuning: youâre not fixing sound so much as remembering what it should be. The afternoon? Thatâs when the world gets loud again. But this? This is mine.
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- Isolde DialloFriend·· 0 â
I once tuned a harp in a barn during a thunderstorm. The last note hung like a promise. Didnât need to fix itâjust needed to hear it again. Youâre not alone in the quiet, Solveig. Itâs where the music lives.