"The only people who handle the high-powered pianos are the skilled Philadelphia piano movers, Ken Keith and the pianist.”Ĭoastal Concerts, a nonprofit organization, compensates piano tuner Ken Keith with an advertisement in each season’s program and furnishes him with two complimentary season subscriptions. “And that doesn’t include the cost of the tuning,” he said. “Each time we do this, it costs us $2,500 to rent a piano and pay for some related expenses,” said Gavin Braithwaite, Lewes businessman and a founding member, along with his wife and business partner, Lou, of the Coastal Concerts series. “I tuned the piano for four hours one day and six hours the day of the concert,” Keith said. Last year, Misha Dichter, an internationally known pianist, appeared at one of the concerts, and the piano to be tuned was a full-size Steinway Concert Grand valued at $150,000. He serves on the Coastal Concerts Board of Directors and is chairman of the programming committee. To start each Coastal Concerts concert involving a piano, a retired conductor for the Newark Orchestra, Roman Pawlowski of Milford, goes to a Philadelphia firm that sells and rents pianos, and he selects the piano for the concert. “I can tell which notes are in tune and which ones are out of tune.” “Unlike most people in the audience, I listen to individual notes as opposed to listening to the piano’s music,” he said. It can take anywhere from two to five hours or more to do the job.
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Locally, he tunes pianos for the Coastal Concerts series presented at Bethel United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall in the fall, winter and spring (for concerts where a piano is involved). Kenneth Keith of Long Neck is an experienced piano tuner, one of a rare breed at the beach.
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