September is Classical Music Month and we meet a piano player spending his second act doing restoration for a longstanding piano company in Philadelphia.
September is Classical Music Month and we meet a piano player spending his second act doing restoration for a longstanding piano company in Philly.Geza Mika can easily play a Bach invention from memory.
He says it was his strong ear that led him to lessons at an early age.Cunningham PianoIn college, he studied architecture and got into furniture restoration, while also keeping music in his life. In 2016, he went to trade school in Boston.in Germantown since 2018. "It's got all new parts," he says of the piano he's currently working on in his office. "We only rebuild instruments here and we have three other showrooms.""My business partner, Tim Oliver, and I are the fourth set of owners in 135 years," says Galassini. "We've been around since 1891.""This is a pretty old-school kind of facility and we take our time," says Mika. "I've worked on instruments where it takes me a month, and with really complicated instruments, it might take me more than that.""There are measurements that you establish in a piano for different parts," he says. "And you're creating horizontal lines." Mika says an instrument might last "around 80 years," but because of the materials that were available more than a century ago, he sees a lot of "really well-made pianos from the 1920s.""The goal is to bring that instrument to optimal performance," says Mika. "I enjoy doing that."
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