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Newsletters

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Issue 1 May 2017 - Basic Care and Feeding of Your Piano

Issue 2 June 2017 - Dampers: The Importance of Silence

Issue 3 July 2017 - Frederic Chopin: Master of Melody

Issue 4 August 2017 - The Original Steinway

Issue 5 September 2017 - Pedals

Issue 6 October 2017 - Hammer Time

Issue 7 November 2017 - Bartolomeo Cristofori: Inventor of the Piano

Issue 8 December 2017 - Practice Preparing to put on the Perfect Performance

Issue 9 January 2018 - I'll Tell Ya Who Needs Scales

Issue 10 February 2018 - Getting to Know Your Soundboard

Issue 11 March 2018 - Curro Baby Grand

Issue 12 April 2018 - Beware of the Free Piano

Issue 13 May 2018 - Mary Lou Williams: Setting New Standards in the World of Jazz

Issue 14 June 2018 - Wisdom from the Past

Issue 15 July 2018 - The First Solo Piano Recital

Issue 16 August 2018 - The Piano Technicians Guild Annual Convention and Technical Institute of 2018

Issue 17 September 2018 - The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: A Short Book Review

Issue 18 October 2018 - The First International Frederic Chopin Competition on Period Instruments

Issue 19 November 2018 - A Grand Comparison

Issue 20 December 2018 - Freddie Mercury: The World's Greatest Frontman

Issue 21 February 2019 - Build Your Music on a Rock

Issue 22 April 2019 - The Triad of Strength

Issue 23 May 2019 - Claude Montal: Piano Technician, Piano Builder, and Author

Issue 24 June 2019 - Suggestions for Testing a Piano

Issue 25 August 2019 - The Square Grand

Issue 26 September 2019 - Arno's New Piano Design

Issue 27 October 2019 - My Musical Condition

Issue 28 November 2019 - String 'Em Up!

Issue 29 December 2019 - How a Piano Works Workshop

Issue 30 January 2020 - Perspectives on Piano Tuning

Issue 31 February 2020 - We've Got You Covered

Issue 32 March 2020 - Business is Business, But Good Business is Better

Issue 33 July 2020 - Dos and Don'ts of Piano Cleaning

Issue 34 August 2020 - Prince: Piano and a Microphone Tour

Issue 35 September 2020 - String Theory

Issue 36 October 2020 - A Piece of Horror

Issue 37 November 2020 - Do You Hear What I Hear?

Issue 38 December 2020 - A New Workshop

Issue 39 January 2021 - Yamaha

Issue 40 February 2021 - Kawai

Issue 41 March 2021 - Samick

Issue 42 April 2021 - Steinway & Sons

Issue 43 May 2021 - Wurlitzer

Issue 44 June 2021 - Kimball

Issue 45 July 2021 - Mason & Hamlin

Issue 46 August 2021 - Baldwin

Issue 47 September 2021 - Chickering

Issue 48 October 2021 - Erard

Issue 49 November 2021 - Schimmel

Issue 50 December 2021 - Fazioli

Issue 51 January 2022 - The Humid Condition

Issue 52 February 2022 - Keeping Things Moving: Hey! Go Play Your Piano

Issue 53 March 2022 - Moments de la Vie d'un Piano

Issue 54 April 2022 - Piano Wars: A New Home

Issue 55 May 2022 - Steinway on the NYSE now?

Issue 56 June 2022 - Tuning for Arijit Singh

Issue 57 July 2022 - It Takes a Village...

Issue 58 August 2022 - Chris Maene

Issue 59 September 2022 - Musical Standardization: A Reflection

Issue 60 October 2022 - Young Chang Regulation Project

(with video)

Issue 61 November 2022 - Can You Feel the Music?

Issue 62 December 2022 - Are You Deaf?

Issue 63 January 2023 - The Spirit of the Piano Part One: War, Bars, and the Public Square

Issue 64 February 2023 - Constructive Interference

Issue 65 March 2023 - The Free Yamaha Grand Piano Scam

Issue 66 April 2023 - Virtual Machines

Issue 67 May 2023 - There'll Be No New Tunes on this Old Piano of Mine

Issue 68 June 2023 - The Spirit of the Piano Part 2: In the Key of Sea Major

Issue 69 July 2023 - The Princeton Festival 2023

Issue 70 August 2023 - Gremlins in the Machine

Issue 71 September 2023 - Piano Marketing at Its Finest

Issue 72 October 2023 - Compared to a Piano

Issue 73 November 2023 - Humidifiers

Issue 74 December 2023 - The Spirit of the Piano Part 3: Books, Films, and Other Representations

Issue 75 January 2024 - When You Come to a Tuning Fork in the Road, Take It

Issue 76 February 2024 - Not Your Keys, Not Your Piano

Issue 77 March 2024 - The Value of a Piano

Issue 78 April 2024 - The Vough Changeable Pitch Piano

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