This began a friendship and a valuable working relationship whereby Thiessen apprenticed for nine years under Mark Cramer, who works at Brandon University and is a Registered Piano Technician. We lock ourselves in a room and work on a passage or piece for hours on end, that doesn’t sound a whole lot different to me.” “I fired back that as a musician that was par for the course. “‘If you don't do a task with the amount of precision that I want, I'll make you do it again,’ he said. When I asked him why, he replied with a smirk ‘I’ll be mean to you’. “He took it in stride and immediately told me that I didn’t want to work for him.
PIANO TUNER AUSTIN FULL
“I had just completed my last full length recital and was still wearing my tux and tails when I decided to stroll over to Mark’s office and ask for a job.” In 2006, as a cello player enrolled in Brandon University’s performance program he unexpectedly found his niche working with RPT Mark Cramer in BU. “My motivation for becoming a piano technician was born out of a love for music and the enjoyment of working with my hands,” says Thiessen. Alex Thiessen of Oak Lake is a musician who, as a Registered Piano Technician, earns a living for his family tuning and repairing pianos.
In a quiet home, a piano tuner repeatedly strikes each key of a classic Heintzman upright circa 1925, listening intently and adjusting the tuning hammer wrench ever so slightly.
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