My thoughts on "The lost #pianos of #Siberia": I'm mainly jealous of the quixotic book title, not so much of the actual endeavours on the wrong side of the Ural mountains ... https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2026/05/pianos-lost-and-found.html

#bookreview #travelwriting #nonFiction #musicalInstruments

https://odicforcesounds.bandcamp.com/track/fire-in-my-eyes-metal-in-my-soul

#Music #Bandcamp #Electronic #Pianos

For the past few months, I've been working on #tuning modern #pianos. It's quite a stretch from my usual historical fare! I have decades of experience with harpsichords, but this really is a new thing entirely, with a lot of very new skills to learn.

It's fascinating, and frustrating, how difficult it is just to turn the pin and get it to stay where you want it to, and even more fascinating how every tuner seems to use different, and completely incompatible strategies for doing this.

If ‘Free Pianos’ Show Up in Your Feed, Don’t Be Duped: Industry Pioneers Warn Against Them

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/if-free-pianos-show-up-in-your-feed-dont-be-duped/

#goodnews #music #education #pianos

💬 #DidYouKnow that the #pianist Alide Topp once responded to claims that women lacked the "biceps of a man" for great music by stating she broke her #pianos as well as any man?

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alide_Topp

The 30th novelette, " – on pretending that – ", continues, with some morning foolery, unexpected co-conspirators, and not one, but two disquisitions on value!

(Never say we don't deliver what you want, here at the City of Roses.)

https://thecityofroses.com/story/OnPretendingThatActI

#FantasyLit #FreeBooks #IndieAuthors #Pianos