The Piano Tuner's Apprentice
In 2019, Marcus Chen started his apprenticeship at a piano restoration shop on West 57th Street in Manhattan. His mentor, a seventy-year-old tuner named Gerald,...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on 1 Samuel 3:1-10.
In 2019, Marcus Chen started his apprenticeship at a piano restoration shop on West 57th Street in Manhattan. His mentor, a seventy-year-old tuner named Gerald, would strike a chord and pause. "Hear that?" Gerald would ask. Marcus heard nothing wrong. The notes sounded perfectly fine. Gerald would shake his head gently and adjust a pin by a fraction of a millimeter.…
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