![]() "Because they have too many scales!" Ottermann responded without missing a beat.Īfter 40 years in the piano tuning business, he'd heard it all. "You know why you can tune a piano, but you can't tune a fish?" the man asked. "Not yet, I need another half an hour," Ottermann explained.Īnother man, minutes later, approached Ottermann. "May I?" the man asked, gesturing toward the piano, which was still mid-tune and without its top panel. He and Maggie are looking forward to traveling more, but he said he will miss his clients and being part of Pianos About Town.Īfter years of tuning pianos, you get to know their owners, he said.Īlmost on cue, a man with long brown hair timidly approached the Old Town Library piano after Ottermann had stepped away for a minute. ![]() Because he's not in town as much as he used to be, Ottermann thought this would be a good year to hang up his tuning hammer for good. In recent years, Ottermann and his wife, Maggie, have been spending more time in Florida during Colorado's snowy winters. In 1979, two years after he moved to Fort Collins, Ottermann, then 24, was offered an apprenticeship with a local piano tuner who was looking to expand his business. He's been tuning pianos ever since. "I think that's where I got my ear (from)," he said, adding that while he only plays enough piano to tune them, he's much better at the electric bass, which he plays in a local duo, The Dinotto Brothers. ![]() Until then, Ottermann continues to make his rounds among the program's 12 pianos, tuning them once a month or after big changes in temperature or weather.Īs the son of a classical pianist mother, Ottermann said he's been listening to music since he was in the womb. ![]()
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