Updating Your Toolkit, Learning & Growing w/ Boaz Kirschenbaum
We piano techs all tend to nerd out about our piano tools every once in a while, don’t we?
Tune in to this Piano Tech Radio Hour episode and learn what our guest, Boaz Kirschenbaum has up his sleeve or should we say inside his fancy leather tool case? In this session you might discover some unknown or rarely made tools or encounter other fun surprises–with Boaz you can always expect a rewarding lecture.
Besides being a precision touch design installer, an action specialist, and an amazing Piano technician, Boaz Kirschenbaum is also a toolkit enthusiast and can go on and on about the array of tools he owns.
His toolkit consists of several one-of-a-kind tools… Some of them were handed down to him by his mentors, some designed especially for him, and others were acquired during his trips abroad.
If you’re someone who is wondering whether you need a tool to upgrade or want a tool for a specific tuning activity, you might find your answers in this episode.
One important message from Boaz: the only thing you need to accompany excellent skills is highly efficient tools. And never worry too much about their price… as you’ll often make that money back within one job that tool helps perform!
Here’s a little bit about our guest Boaz Kirschenbaum:
Tune in to this Piano Tech Radio Hour episode and learn what our guest, Boaz Kirschenbaum has up his sleeve or should we say inside his fancy leather tool case? In this session you might discover some unknown or rarely made tools or encounter other fun surprises–with Boaz you can always expect a rewarding lecture.
Besides being a precision touch design installer, an action specialist, and an amazing Piano technician, Boaz Kirschenbaum is also a toolkit enthusiast and can go on and on about the array of tools he owns.
His toolkit consists of several one-of-a-kind tools… Some of them were handed down to him by his mentors, some designed especially for him, and others were acquired during his trips abroad.
If you’re someone who is wondering whether you need a tool to upgrade or want a tool for a specific tuning activity, you might find your answers in this episode.
One important message from Boaz: the only thing you need to accompany excellent skills is highly efficient tools. And never worry too much about their price… as you’ll often make that money back within one job that tool helps perform!
Here’s a little bit about our guest Boaz Kirschenbaum:
Boaz is a graduate of the CF Theodore Steinway Academy in Hamburg, Germany, and holds a Diploma in Advanced Piano Technology from the North Bennet Street School. Boaz was employed by Steinway & Sons from 2003-2006. His mentors include Bruce Clark, Ron Coners, Aleks Markovich, Eric Schandall, and David Stanwood. Boaz is a Precision Touch Design Installer and action specialist. He returned to field service in 2015 as a full-time road warrior for Fredrick Mudge, servicing all of New England and New York City.
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Creators and Guests
Host
David Andersen
David Andersen, owner of David Andersen pianos in Los Angeles has been a professional musician, recording artist, and piano technician/consultant for nearly four decades. He has overseen the restoration and maintenance of hundreds of Steinway and Mason & Hamlin pianos during that time. Beginning in 1975 he apprenticed for two and a half years under Jack Cofer in Atlanta, Georgia; during the 1980s he studied at Steinway facilities both in New York and London.
Host
Eathan Janney
Eathan has 20 years of experience as a piano technician. He studied with Dave Miller, the staff piano technician for the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, New Jersey. Dave Carpenter, the inventor of the Verituner electronic tuning device, provided mentorship for Eathan in Chicago. Eathan also worked with Ken Eschete and Bill Schwarts, the staff piano technicians at Northwestern University in Chicago. In 2009, he founded Floating Piano Factory of New York, a company that allows piano technicians to move from Apprentice to Craftsman level while offering value pricing to clients as technicians progress toward mastery. In 2017 he founded Piano Technicians Masterclasses, an online project designed to offer cutting-edge instruction from piano industry masters to anyone on the globe with an internet connection.
Guest
Boaz Kirschenbaum
Boaz is a graduate of the CF Theodore Steinway Academy in Hamburg, Germany, and holds a Diploma in Advanced Piano Technology from the North Bennet Street School. Boaz was employed by Steinway & Sons from 2003-2006. His mentors include Bruce Clark, Ron Coners, Aleks Markovich, Eric Schandall, and David Stanwood. Boaz is a Precision Touch Design Installer and action specialist. He returned to field service in 2015 as a full-time road warrior for Fredrick Mudge, servicing all of New England and New York City.