Right after the holidays Deb McCann and Matt Arnott organized what many believe to be the first social gathering of the Piano Technicians from the Okanagan Valley. We had piano nerds from Kaleden to Kamloops to Revelstoke. These piano tuning parties always end up being a crazy collection of characters. One couple lives up in the woods beyond Vernon who not only do full piano rebuilds, but one of them is a luthier (guitar maker), they make sound boards from scratch (very rare) and harvest their own wood! Another fellow is a mildly autistic teenager who is currently apprenticing as a piano technician, is an antique piano and organ collector (he has more than 20) and is a self taught rock and blues piano player. We were treated with a little concert. But the winner is the grandfather of Okanagan piano tuning, Steve McCann who is in his 80’s, has two hearing aids and is still going strong in the tuning business!