As you know, a piano needs frequent adjustments to work well. There are many pianos in Palestine but there is not anybody qualified to fix it except one man from Jerusalem who is now old and tired of the hassles of travelling here. Thus, Palestinians are depending from voluntary piano tuners' intermittent stays.
Organized with the associations “Music Fund” from Belgium and "Nablus the Culture" from Palestine, the idea is to train two persons during a year. The workshop will be established in Nablus in the north of the Westbank.

Saturday, May 17, 2008

Workshop pictures

I must show you some pictures of my students!



Sameh is sanding hammers



Ali is practising tuning



Reyad is very concentrated



Ali and Sameh just started to fix this Russian piano



We will start this Pleyel soon



Two beautiful pictures from my garden

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Jerusalem tour

Today, I had to meet John Orfali again in Jerusalem to collect some pianos supplies. John is the piano tuner who was coming in Ramallah and Nablus. Now I can imagine how it is difficult for him to work after a travel like Jerusalem to Nablus. In a bad checkpoint day you could easily spend 6 hours for the journey... So when the weather is very hot and you have also to tune pianos...

After recover the supplies, I took advantage of my free time to visit the city.


Damascus gate: One of the most important entrances of the old city



Little streets inside the old city



Around the old city



5 minutes walk and the city is totally different



Rockefeller museum (more information here : http://www.imj.org.il/rockefeller/index.html )

Monday, May 05, 2008

Looking for pianos in Qalqilia

The workshop started last week. All is right and my students are very serious and interesting. But now, I need a lot of pianos for their training. That is why today I was in Qalqilia with Sami. We saw a lot of pianos and bought one. Moreover we had very good contacts to get others soon.


Views of Qalqilia



Sami is bargaining my new piano


I will put photos of my beautiful workshop soon...
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