As he nears retirement age everyone around Desmond O’Keeffe expects him to slow down, to relax in a deck chair with a slice of lemon drizzle cake and reflect on his life’s work. However the piano tuner from Camden Town plans on doing no such thing. When a teacher walks into his repair shop and suggests that her Himalayan school is too remote to receive delivery of a piano he accepts her unstated request and undertakes the biggest logistical challenge of his career.
He spent the following year training in Richmond Park and enlisting assistants from every corner of Camden, including conservationist Anna Ray and filmmaker Michal Sulima, to help him transport the piano — an upright Broadwood and Sons — from London to Lingshed, deep in the Zanskar mountains — at 14,000 feet above sea level it would be the highest piano delivery in history.
Following a brief introduction to the shop and its shopkeeper,...
He spent the following year training in Richmond Park and enlisting assistants from every corner of Camden, including conservationist Anna Ray and filmmaker Michal Sulima, to help him transport the piano — an upright Broadwood and Sons — from London to Lingshed, deep in the Zanskar mountains — at 14,000 feet above sea level it would be the highest piano delivery in history.
Following a brief introduction to the shop and its shopkeeper,...
- 6/29/2018
- by Steven Neish
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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