Despite the hopeful title of Bishop Allen's 2003 debut Charm School, a formal education wasn't enough to ingratiate these Harvard grads to the wider public. Forced to choose the autodidactic route ...

Machines have a natural lifespan, and I’m afraid that one of them is dying in my dining room. “I wouldn’t put any more money into this,” is the way Alexander Felides, aka The Piano Doctor, put it ...

The sound coming from the back of the Goodwill store captured our attention. I could tell immediately that it wasn’t a recording because of the richness of the tone. My family couldn’t help but make ...

Cy Shuster began his career as a software engineer who played a little guitar on the side. He could tune his guitar, so he figured tuning a piano couldn’t be that hard. “Then I tried it,” he said with ...

A wobbly, antique piano forte, once used as a sign-in desk in the University at Buffalo Music Department, long ago became an afterthought. “This kind of piano could have been firewood,” said Devin ...