Amos Littrel

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...

In a previous blog, I explained stretch tuning. Here, I go into more detail on it's application. Most people assume piano tuning is simple: each note is tuned to an exact mathematical frequency and everything lines up perfectly. That would be true... if piano strings behaved like perfect theoretical objects created in a physics lab by emotionally unavailable robots. Unfortunately, pianos are built from steel, wood, felt, tension, age, humidity, and decades of accumulated personality...

Disclaimer : I am NOT a psychologist or psychiatrist. While I did major in psychology in college, I did not go through the necessary steps to make it a career. What follows is simply an opinion, albeit maybe a more educated one. To learn how to play piano is to unlock the full potential of the mind. Learning music in general is always a good way to expand one's mind and exercise the ol' grey matter. However, unlike most instruments that play either single notes at a time (not knocking those...