3 January 2021, 12:07 AM | Veronica Fourie | @KingKAzania
Image: ReutersReon Brown has a good ear and is committed and passionate about hitting the right notes.
Piano tuning is a very specialised trade and there are only an estimated 11 000 qualified tuners in the world. In the Eastern Cape, there are only five recognised piano tuners. There is also no formal training available in South Africa to become a piano tuner. Yet, their skill is vital to the listening pleasure of millions as composers cannot write music to be played on piano’s that cannot hit the right notes.
Reon Brown has a good ear and is committed and passionate about hitting the right notes. It takes patience, an extraordinary amount of it, as he tunes the piano note for note.
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