{"id":338,"date":"2009-01-06T13:36:56","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T13:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=338"},"modified":"2009-01-06T13:39:59","modified_gmt":"2009-01-06T13:39:59","slug":"the-piano-tuner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=338","title":{"rendered":"The Piano Tuner"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_339\" style=\"width: 132px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-339\" class=\"size-full wp-image-339\" title=\"The Piano Tuner\" src=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/piano.jpg\" alt=\"The Piano Tuner\" width=\"122\" height=\"180\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-339\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Piano Tuner<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Years ago I went to a bookstore at Zurich&#8217;s international airport and picked up a book to read on the flight, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Daniel_Mason\">Daniel Mason<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Piano_Tuner\">The Piano Tuner<\/a>. I began reading then, but I kind of drifted away, never finishing it, putting it aside after I got back home, I never even got halfway. The book was sitting, forgotten, on top of an ever growing pile next to my bed.<\/p>\n<p>Until last week, that is, when I picked it up again. I had to start from the beginning, as I didn&#8217;t remember much, just the uniqueness of the story and its atmosphere. This time around, it didn&#8217;t take long to get to the last page&#8230; despite the 19th century feel and pace, it turned out to be a page-turner after all.<\/p>\n<p>And an unlikely story it is, set in Victorian England, telling the tale of a shy, self-absorbed London piano tuner who gets the most unusual commission of his lifetime: a request by Her Majesty&#8217;s War Office to travel to the remotest parts of Burma in order to tune and repair an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/S%C3%A9bastien_%C3%89rard\">Erard<\/a> grand piano.<\/p>\n<p>As it turns out, I&#8217;m not the only one who was mesmerized by Mason&#8217;s story. Now I hear that a movie is in the works. Not bad for the first novel of a medical student!<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=338' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago I went to a bookstore at Zurich&#8217;s international airport and picked up a book to read on the flight, Daniel Mason&#8216;s The Piano Tuner. I began reading then, but I kind of drifted away, never finishing it, putting it aside after I got back home, I never even got halfway. The book was <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=338' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-9-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions\/341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}