Tuner: We finally get a movie!

When I was a boy, I was asked by adults that ever popular question that gets asked of children: What do you want to be when you grow up? I vaguely remember that question being asked of me when I was in kindergarten and having just met an electrician, I remember answering with that as my goal. Little did I realize at the time that electricity was manifest as my biggest fear. I have never wanted anything to do with it (yet I still voluntarily let myself be tazed once when working in the field of corrections).

The point is, if you ask this question of any children today, it is highly unlikely that any of them will answer with "I want to be a piano tuner when I grow up." You'll get the popular answers of doctor, police, lawyer, firefighter... but their popularity is fueled by media and the nobility of the career field. Watch a TV show or movie, even ones that aren't centered around the career, and there is a high probability that one or more of those four career paths will show up. What else is likely to show up? Pianos. Pianos fill TV and movie screens quite regularly, whether being played by a character or as a background piece of furniture. Even spinets, no longer being produced on a large scale, will show up in the background of a scene from time to time.

What we don't see? The people that take care of those pianos. We the tuners/technicians. Maybe for good reason. What kind of stories can be told that would draw in viewers? Technician starts tuning a piano only for the piano to magically come to life and eat the tuner? It would take a lot of creativity to figure out a compelling story arc for a movie about a tuner... much less a TV series. But someone finally did it. Tuner releases to all theaters next week and the reviews on it are damn near perfect! Hardly a negative thing to be said. A tuner whose skills at listening get used for criminal activity? Looks like we found a good story.

Let's make this movie a blockbuster hit! Stay tuned everyone!