Recent Media Coverage of Daniel Sittig
Sweet songs start with a well-tuned piano
by Diana Nelson Jones
I sat across the room as Daniel Sittig tuned my piano. He struck a key, struck it again, and again, and again, and turned the handle of a tool that caps a peg on each string. As he turned and struck the key, struck the key and turned, the tone slid upward from flat to the perfect niche it had vacated since the last tuning, and Daniel nodded. After he drew each tone up or down, he would nod or smile, making his auburn goatee move.
"This C sharp" he said, looking at me through the space between the piano and its lid as he struck the note, "is not going to be what the others are. But it's close."
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In Tune With His Work
by Sandra Fischione Donovan
Daniel Sittig of Ambridge considers the single act that turned him toward a career of tuning pianos "complete divine Providence."
Sitting was 19 and wanted to tune his own piano. He walked into a store where tuner Ernie Vagias of Baden was working and asked Vagias if he could borrow a tuning fork.
"I had no experience. I couldn't tune a string to save my life," says Sittig, smiling at the memory.
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Daniel Sittig of Ambridge slowly turns a wrench to bring the grand piano at Orchard Hill Church in Franklin Park into perfect tune.
