Time to call the tuner....

Annie Grieshop
(641) 691-TUNE  (-8863) 
or email me

I'm always glad to converse about pianos!

Every piano teaches me something,
and I've finally gotten around to blogging about it.
(possibly most interesting to those who work on pianos)

Providing tuning, regulation, voicing, and repair services 
to all makes and models of pianos
in central Iowa. 

mailing address:
2125 290th St.
Melbourne IA 50162

To locate a Registered Piano Technician in this or any other area,
please visit the Piano Technicians Guild website.

I am an Associate member of the PTG.

Noticed a Change

  When a man alters the cut of his whiskers all his friends notice the difference in him, but many of them are at a loss how to account for it.
  “What have you been doing?” they say.  “You look like another person.”
  Something like that happened .... when a woman returned home after a few days abroad, and heard her daughter playing the piano.
  “Where did you learn that new piece, Maria?” the mother asked.
  “It isn’t a new piece, Mother.  The piano has been tuned.”

Pullman (IL) Journal, Saturday, March 25, 1893.
Vol. IV. No. 12,  p. 2. 
Published by the Arcade Mercantile Association.

The "cat piano", above, was described by Athanasius Kircher
in Musurgia Universalis, published in 1650.
http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/month/nov2002.html
http://www.library.rdg.ac.uk/colls/special/featureditem/kircher/index.html

This engraving is certainly from a later period.

(Thanks to my cousin Waw for solving the mystery of its source!)