Music Citizens Episode 3: The Tuner

Elite piano tuning is grueling work. It’s taxing on the body, it strains relationships, and it never leads to fame or glory.

Music Citizens, a podcast series by WNXP and Nashville Public Radio, recently explored how someone becomes the top piano tuner in Nashville and why they would want to. Today we welcome the voices of episode three, The Tuner. They’re just some of the people who keep the music business moving — but whose vital work goes largely uncelebrated. Plus, we learn what it takes to fix a piano when it is seemingly broken beyond repair.

Guests

• Brent Arledge, Owner, Arledge Piano Service
• James Arledge, Owner, Arledge Music Wire, Brent’s dad
• Justin Barney, Music Reporter at Nashville Public Radio
• Jonathan Rizzo,  Owner, American Piano Tuning

Further listening

• Listen to Music Citizens Episode 3: The Tuner, and every episode of Music Citizens, wherever you get your podcasts or on the WNXP website.