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After midnight MOONLIGHT Sonata–why not another try, first movement (BEETHOVEN–video)

Posted on February 17, 2012 by arioso7: Shirley Kirsten

I had nothing better to do at 1 a.m. and Aiden cat had settled down on the rug beside the piano. This time he had no energy reserves to leap to the window sill and make a racket. (Notice how … Continue reading →

DREAM PIANO: Overview and Acknowledgments

Posted on January 17, 2011 by arioso7: Shirley Kirsten

My two-year long romp on the piano finding trail with York as my professional companion and consultant had been worth all the time spent in, around and under pianos. How else would I have acquired knowledge about the piano’s harp, … Continue reading →

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Piano Tuner, York on Mice, Rats, Moths and Cats (Video, part 2)

Posted on January 10, 2011 by arioso7: Shirley Kirsten

In this part two follow-up to York’s World War II Memoir, the seasoned piano tuner relaxes into his emblematic animated conversation, telling the world how to eradicate mice, rats, and moths from pianos. Oldsters watching better have a fresh pair … Continue reading →

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York’s World War II Musical Memoir (Video)

Posted on January 6, 2011 by arioso7: Shirley Kirsten

York had shown me burns on his arms that he’d sustained in Hiroshima following the US attack. The blisters sprang up rapidly on the afternoon he’d been dispatched to the scene. I had always surmised that York’s deeply embedded scars were from piano strings “poppin’”on him. But one morning he told me the indelible … Continue reading →

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Mr. York in his own voice, a Musical WW II Memoir

Posted on January 5, 2011 by arioso7: Shirley Kirsten

Without giving away the content of this video before it is seen, suffice it to say that the viewer will long remember this tender World War II story as recounted by 84 year old, Connell York, piano tuner, in his … Continue reading →

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Category Archives: World War II

After midnight MOONLIGHT Sonata–why not another try, first movement (BEETHOVEN–video)

DREAM PIANO: Overview and Acknowledgments

Piano Tuner, York on Mice, Rats, Moths and Cats (Video, part 2)

York’s World War II Musical Memoir (Video)

Mr. York in his own voice, a Musical WW II Memoir

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