Keyboard Phenomena

A saying came to me while I was listening to my tuning today, from Krishnamurti, “one must be a light to oneself,” and I’m not quite sure why this popped into my brain at the time.

Later I was finalizing the tuning and I had another realization: the piano will be in its maximum manifestation of in-tuneness when the best compromises have been made, and it is wholly relaxed and comfortable within its own vibration, whatever that means.

It was then that I made the conceptual connection that to be in tune is to be at ease with oneself.

So, now I’d like to start always thinking of my job as “putting pianos at ease with themselves” or “letting the instrument be a light unto itself.”

Indeed, tuning or attunenent may be understood as the basic site of the deliberation of truth and harmony.