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The Piano Tuner's Tale

Ed Stewart talks to Sian about being caught up in a row at a party as a teenager and how in a blinding flash, his life and career changed for ever.

In 1977 Ed Stewart was a happy go lucky teenager from Worthing who had just started an engineering job. He wasn't really sure how his life and career were going to unfold but he had a girlfriend and a motorbike and life was good. When he dropped in on a friend's party not far from his home he couldn't have anticipated getting involved in a violent argument with an acquaintance who happened to be carrying a shotgun.

The impact of what happened turned Ed's life on its head. He had to learn to navigate the world in an entirely different way, and he ended up choosing a profession that has served him well for over forty years. He now tunes pianos for anyone from Jools Holland to hundreds of private clients in Hampshire, Surrey and West Sussex.
But as he tells Sian, he didn't have just one but two Life Changing moments that lead him to be what he refers to as a 'glass-three-quarters-full' kind of bloke.

Producer: Tom Alban

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