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New York 

• Aeolian 51" high-polish ebony upright, wooden parts, same size as a Yamaha U3, half the money and will last forever:  $2,750

• Sohmer (most respected modern U.S. maker after Steinway) 1950s spinet very pretty, beautifully made: $1,200

• Baldwin Howard 5'8" ebony grand, ready for concert, at Alwan Cultural Center 16 Beaver St., near Bowling Green: $5,750

• Whitney 1960s black spinet, perfect piano:  $750

Oakland 

• Baldwin 1929 upright reproducer, piano rebuilt by Ben and player part by Tiptop Piano Shop's Dana Huff in the 80s, still strong), nice hammers, loads of rolls: $6,500

Tokyo 

• Steinway 1889 upright, fully restored: $10,000

• Melodigrand miniature upright, exquisite: ¥90,000

Back in the us of a

We landed on our feet: NYU and all my customers are calling. Olcika is back with Ofer Tchernikovski's wonderful birdsong lab where she will continue her research (neuroscience: how the Australian zebra finch learns to sing) so rudely interrupted by TEPCO. We are back in our old apartment. It's like Japan was a lovely dream with great taste sensations. The Underwater Piano Shop is in its old Ridge St. site again.

We have lots of good pianos for sale: Steinway S 5'1 which is the 8th wonder of the world because it sounds just like a 6' piano; Howard Kawai parlor grand ($5,750 all proceeds to Send A Piana To Havana); several cheap uprights, Steinway A (coming soon). Still in Japan: nicely restored 1883 Steinway ebony upright (Japan ¥1,000,000), Melodigrand miniature 67-note upright (¥90,000), Chickering 1940s console (visit it and all the lovely women who work at Seibu Piano Co. http://www.seibupiano.com/, ask them the price). And the world's oldest Steinway at http://www.fazioli.co.jp/gallery/steinway).

All piano info will be updated soon at www.tunerben.com

Underwater Piano Shop submarining back to NYC

All packed up and gone from lovely Japan, my piano shop is on a slow boat to NY. The Treuhaft family is in Budapest getting ready to return to NYC on Monday August 1st.

All pianos have been disposed of although two remain for sale: walnut Chickering console can be seen at Seibu Pianos in the TOC building at Gotanda, worth a visit if only to admire the women who do the tuning, regulating, repairs and management there. Their pianos are wonderful and cheap too. http://www.seibupiano.com/. The pretty mini-piano is also available, in Wako-shi, Saitama http://tokyo.craigslist.jp/msg/2516326111.html.
Ben

Steinway Upright Piano Saitama (Tokyo) now ¥500,000

Must sell restored 1883 Steinway E exactly like
http://www.whiteplainspiano.com/Steinway_1886_Upright_001.jpg
New ebony finish, hammers and shanks (action good to go for another century), new strings and tuning pins on excellent original pinblock and board, regulated to perfection at about 57 grams touchweight. Normally ¥1,000,000.

The Melodigrand
http://tunerben.com/Underwater_Piano_Shop/Pianos_for_Sale.html
is reduced to ¥95,000 (Hamburg upright is sold). A restored Chickering console also must be sold up by July 20th and is also half-price at ¥120,000. Also two ugly but excellent ½ size pianos, ¥35,000 apiece.

Many household items also going, notably two amazing three-wheel bikes http://worksmancycles.com/shopsite_sc/store/html/movers.html
capable of moving a large family through Saitama.

Suddenly Saitama (Tokyo) Steinways for Sale So Stinking Cheap

Now we're leaving, Olcika and the babes next Sat. July 2nd and me July 24th BUT I only have until Zsofi's birhday, Monday, June 27th to sell two of my Steinway uprights. You can see one of them here at Pianos For Sale, it's the Hamburg art piano. The other is a mahogany ivory key upright model K #116031 (1905). There's a complication. These two pianos have to be delivered without keys which must return to the US for an ivory export license. Thus I don't expect any payment until the keys are returned to Japan, maybe 3 months.

They are for sale at half the price advertised, as are most of the others which must be sold up until July 20th. gracias Ben

We have decided to leave Japan so Tuning fee slashed to ¥10,200.

We have decided to leave Japan. Tuning fee slashed to ¥10,200.
We loved our life here (all the people we've met, our new apartment, the extremely kind and hardworking teachers in the nurseries, Olga's fantastic job, my beautiful shop, and the food!), but we feel like we cannot risk the children's health - however small the risks may be. So with great sadness we are getting ready to pack up and move our operations back to New York. This is until Olcika finds another sweet job in a nice place. Any ideas are welcome.

Japan Situation per Olcika

It is probably perfectly safe for an adult who is careful about food choice to live in Tokyo right now. For example, the radiation here is twice what it used to be but still less than half of what it is in New York. So in this sense it's crazy to move. Luckily, my institute is swarming with nuclear physicists and they measure the radioactivity at the institute every hour. Also, the Health Ministry posts radioactivity values of water in every purification plant and sampled food on a website. For the last 2-3 weeks our water has been almost completely free of contamination, although we drink only bottled water just in case. The food is also mostly safe. However, every once in a while a certain food item turns up highly radioactive, like green tea leaves in a prefecture way south of us most recently. Also, a supermarket in Tokyo sold banned lettuce for 9 days by accident, and a food delivery service (like the one we use) delivered highly radioactive spinach to 70 households in our area, also by accident. And we just found out that they found hugely radioactive sludge in Tokyo that was sold as construction material, so who knows where that stuff ended up. I feel like they're trying their best, but mistakes are inevitable. And of course the soil and grass is just too scary, although it still doesn't contain uranium like the soil in Colorado. But those reactors are still going to be dangerous for a long time and every day there are a medium-big earthquakes right in Fukushima (mag. 4 and 5). I don't know, these two months and this decision have been the hardest in my life so far.
     Zsófi may be almost 6 but she behaves just like a spacy teenager (except this morning she wrote a letter to the fairies and threw it out our 2nd story window so they could find it in the flowerbed).  Ben may be 63 but he also is a spacey teenager.