We’re obligated to bestow that title on [Don Gilmore] for his amazingly simple self-tuning piano. To appreciate [Don]’s build, you need to realize that just because a piano has 88 keys ...

“My favorite is when I get done tuning a piano and I play a little something like that and people ask me, so do you play? I guess not,” said Rogers laughing. When Watkins and Rogers are done ...

He delicately tweaks the tuning pins attached to the strings to ensure each one is in harmony with the others. This is no simple task – each piano has more than 200 strings. He usually finishes ...

With only 25 minutes or so to write each song in a tuning that they had never experimented with before, the duo capture the art of songwriting at its purest.