Inspiration.

The piano has been part of my life since I was a child, but my tuning career didn’t start until a few jobs into my working life. My main source of inspiration and encouragement for this new (at the time) career was my meditation teacher Sri Chinmoy. I was fortunate to tune pianos for him to play in performance a few times.

Sri Chinmoy is a spiritual teacher who dedicated his life to serving humanity. He has been my teacher for many years. He was born in Bengal, India, in 1931, and he passed away in 2007.
Sri Chinmoy’s life was dedicated to inspiring people in different ways. He was an author, poet, musician, artist and athlete.
He gave over 700 free concerts for harmony around the world. In these concerts, he would play about 20 different instruments, including the esraj, harmonium, cello, flute and piano.
In the mid-1990s during his travels, Sri Chinmoy would also play the pipe organ of a church or cathedral where he happened to be. His style was improvisational, and very powerful. One of my favourite performances was at St. John’s Riverside Church in Manhattan, USA.
Sri Chinmoy loved to play the piano, mixing improvisation and melodies of different songs that he had composed. His improvisations had such depth and musical range, from very gentle and ethereal melodies to highly energised explosions of power.