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...fact, David Cybulski, who is in charge of piano mainte ance at Harvard, has rebuilt eight of the University's 60-plus pianos this year. But the rebuilding process is extremely slow--taking time away from his equally important duties in piano tuning and upkeep--and over Cybulski's five years here he has completed only 12 instruments...
...plaque above her desk reads "Life is like a piano--what you get out of it depends on how you play it." Her note pads bear the legend "quarter note," and her stationary is covered with small flowering G-clefs. Last December, in what she describes as "the most important thing that's ever happened to me," she soloed with Zubin Mehta and the New York Philharmonic, and this summer she will travel as far as Tokyo to give her third recital in the city's most prestigious concert hall...
...Mayo Tsuzuki is majoring in Engineering and Applied Sciences, and the hours she once spent at the piano she now spends in the basement of the Science Center disentangling the mysteries of A.M. 110. She insists she gave up any ideas about becoming a concert pianist before she came to Harvard. But her almost wistful ambivalence about that decision, her commitment to future performing, and even the mementos that crowd her Canaday room, all speak of regret that she cannot at least continue to practice regularly. She admits that if she had arrived here last September resolved on pursuing...
...another way, however, Tsuzuki says coming here has strengthened her determination always to have some sort of music in her life. "Coming to Harvard gave me the option of dropping piano altogether," she says, adding. "Not until this year, when the choice was finally mine, did I realize how important to me it really...
Nevertheless, this musician who says her parents would never have allowed her to quit the piano before she finished high school has not had a piano lesson in more than a month. "When I was little my friends used to come over and say, 'Mayo, come out and play,' but my mother would say, 'No, she has to practice,' "she recalls. "Now I can only practice if I have a concert coming...