Bill Bremmer Rpt

My apprentice from way back beginning in 2014, Lucas Brookins RPT who was age 17 at the time I first met and started teaching him Piano Technology, dropped by on Friday, Feb 1 at the Janesville Performing Arts Center (in Janesville, Wisconsin) where I had tuned the piano for a show. Lucas has many talents and one of them is as a stunning pianist. He sure knows how to make a 9 foot Steinway ROCK!

Lucas offered 2 samples: one from the camera on stage and the other from the audience. The piano is a 9 foot, Model D Concert Grand Piano made by Steinway & Sons in 1965 at the factory in New York City. I replaced it's original Teflon action parts with new ones from the NYC factory 30 years ago in 1990.

I'm not a rebuilder but I do the best that I can in such a case. I've been taking care of it ever since. The sessions at the Steinway factory in 1986 under Bill Garlick in 1986 and Scott Jones in 1991 have greatly helped me maintain the instrument.

I have always tuned this piano in the EBVT that I developed in 1992 for each and every artist and event. With or without orchestra or ensemble and for all imaginable types of music. I never once had a question or complaint about tuning or temperament but there have been many laudatory comments, many from the artist on stage.

Lucas Brookins will be age 23 on February 18. He has his own piano tuning business and lives in Janesville, Wisconsin.

Setting the A4 pitch with a tuning fork.