亀清旅館のロビーのピアノのピアノは年に一度の調律が行われました。調律師の五味さんの手が上手いです。
こうやってピアノの修理を見ると、懐かしいです。私の前に人生（3年前に旅館の跡継ぎの為に引越しするまで）に貿易会社に勤めていました。色々扱っている中で、（先日は木材の事も書いたと思いますが）1つはこういう中古ピアノでした。亀清のロビーにピアノは毎日に弾かれています（ピアノを習っている長男やお客様に）けど、日本はそくら中に眠っているピアノは沢山あります。そのピアノはアメリカで人気です。木をたっぷり使った日本製中古ピアノかプラスチックが多い中国製の新品ピアノの選択なら、やはりYamahaやKawai。
Our lobby's piano received its once-a-year tuning at the able hands of local tuner, Gomi-san. Seeing the insides of the piano brought back lots of memories. In my previous life (before moving here to help out at Kamesei Ryokan 3 years ago), I worked at a trading company in Seattle. As I recently mentioned here on the blog, one of the many things we handled was lumber. Another was: used pianos like this shipped from Japan that we distributed wholesale in the States. Our piano gets used frequently -- by our son Andy who is studying piano and by our guests. But there are hundreds, thousands of pianos throughout Japan that were bought for daughters who have grown up and out. The pianos now just sit and collect dust. They are in strong demand in the States, where someone who is looking at buying a piano often compares one of these old but sturdy used Yamaha or Kawai with a mostly plastic, made in China new piano.
