Tonight I made a weeny film, prompted by having encountered a 'Collingwood Piano'. Possibly the first in a series of teensy impressionistic vignettes of my tuner travels, that just might also be mildly edu-ma-cational.
Function room pianos look so elegant and glamorous – as long
as you don’t look too closely! Too often, pub, restaurant and reception centre pianos
are not only neglected, but abused. Meet the ‘Collingwood Piano’. I didn’t
photograph the myriad ugly scuff marks, chips and divots in its cabinet. Instead,
I briefly documented the damaging effect of liquids meeting with piano strings
(while waiting to for access to tune a more ‘important’ piano). The booty of
foreign objects inside the second piano was again, unfortunately,
all-too-common. Lavish floral arrangements and candles had left their legacy
inside the piano.
The simplest strategy is prevention – keep the lid closed as
often as possible and take care with the ‘decorations’. And tune regularly!
COFFEE ENEMA
I spent a recent evening making a teensy song, off the back of a joke remark. A friend suggested I was the perfect choice for a mash-up tuba-centric soundtrack with actual quotes from this disturbingly bizarre CLIP from the tabloid TV show My Strange Addition, featuring a couple who indulge in coffee enemas. So, I followed through!
The real challenge would be to make a video clip for COFFEE ENEMA ...hmmm.
Recently I made a little film about LLOYD THE GREAT (above) I'm always meeting pets and pianos. Check it out!
On this blog, I've added a compilation of PSEUDO-TWEETS liberating them from purgatory within the annals of Facebook... I don't know whether I'm celebrating or protesting. If nothing else, they represents the vagaries of my headspace!
P.S. I don't tweet.
Schools are so calming and wonderful - during the holidays!
That is the sort of thing a piano tuner (me) would tweet if I did.
I got caught nudging down the volume of my dentist's annoying commercial radio - it's not the first time I've adjusted the volume down, but it IS the first time I've done it so overtly and to such a degree.
I did pseudo-tweet that... and more...
