This story can only really be recommended for those with some interest in pianos and music. Some nice, atmospheric writing, but the main character's obsession with his vocation as a piano tuner overwhelms everything else; his background and relationships are only sketchily hinted at, and the actual process of tuning remains rather vague and mystical. 

I never imagined that a tuner could alter the sound of a piano so extremely, and by the end I started to be skeptical about these claims. They seemed exaggerated.