Kansas City’s weather is about as charming as my dad on the phone with technical support when the password he reset yesterday doesn’t log him into his bejeweled account. Let’s face it, this city has tons going for it… the humidity in the summer and the piercing frozen rain in the winter isn’t among them. Assuming a tornado doesn’t come to take you, your piano, and dog to the land of Oz, we should talk about keeping it in tune. That way, at the least, when you’re hiding from the heat… or cold, you have a nice sounding piano to play.

One of the coolest things about pianos is their range. If you exclude the pipe organ (and your cousin’s digital keyboard he’s been using to make dubstep since 2012), the piano has the largest range of any instrument — certainly any stringed one. That means one instrument has to produce both thunder-low bass and crystalline highs, and that creates a fun design problem.