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Renovation work undertaken My history I started in the trade with J W Mansfield of Worthing, an established local business of over sixty years, in 1962 for £3 a week at the age of fifteen and was lucky enough to have three tuner technicians with over 150 years experience between them teaching me the trade. When the brothers retired the business, I went to Lyon & Hall of Brighton, another long established business, working with another experienced technician. I left in 1972 to start my own business. I am still tuning for a number of people from when I first went out tuning for Mansfield in 1965. I've have been tuning and maintaining pianos for Worthing Borough Council since 1965. For nearly 30 years, I tuned and maintained pianos at Glyndebourne. |
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Glyndebourne 2004: I would like to thank my wife Jenny, whom I have been married to for 35 years and has encouraged me all through our married life. She has always been there for me.
Glyndebourne 2005: We have our picture taken each year by this tree, which never seems to age unlike us. |
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Having spent over 40 years in the trade, the tuner who use to tune my parents' piano who subsequently helped to train me in my first years, told me you never stop learning. He was 75 and had spent his whole working life in the trade. If it was not for my mother I would probably never have come into the trade, but she knew the head of the piano tuning department who had worked for the firm for fifty years and got me my apprenticeship. Both my parents were musicians, but I was only 29 when my mother died. I will always be grateful to her for bringing me into a trade that has given me such a satisfying and rewarding working life. |
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RPE 1 November 2009
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