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	TITLE: The Piano Tuner
	Director: Natalia Laska Genre: Documentary Format: HD Composer: Contributors: Company: Jotz Films Runtime: 90' minutes. ID: 511.

SYNOPSIS

From an Amish family in Tasmania to a Chinese Australian widow in Darwin, piano tuner Martin Tucker encounters people across Australia. Through his craft the audience is introduced to a network of community, soul connection and listening, bound together by the vanishing skill of a piano tuner committed to his calling. Once upon a time Australia was home to the largest number of pianos in the world. Acoustic instruments are now falling out of fashion, replaced by electric keyboards, modern forms of entertainment and the permanent shortage of time to practice. Observational in style, the film follows Martin travelling around Australia and portrays a rapidly changing community, that of the Australian Piano People. Those who play them, those who own them and those who repair and maintain them.