Remember that all musicians ( GREAT and NOT SO GREAT) will get what I call LAZY EARS if you let your piano go too long between TUNE UPS! For each piano the length of time varies on if it is too long or not! For instance some pianos being played a lot will need a […]
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Schimmel and Petrof Grands – 2 of my favorites!
If you have never played a SCHIMMEL GRAND PIANO I highly recommend doing so! I tuned a BEAUTIFUL SCHIMMEL yesterday and they are the most wonderful instruments on the planet and are made in GERMANY! The tone is simply the most mellow and purist sounding piano on each and every note from the low bass […]
I still love to tune pianos, folks!
Sometimes when I am tuning I get this feeling inside wondering why I still LOVE to TUNE PIANOS after 40 years! Then it hits me that no matter what the brand name ( STEINWAY – PETROF – YAMAHA – BALDWIN – etc.. ) it just never gets old making any piano sounds as good as […]
Sundown Sunday
In 2007 my producer STEVE PARRISH just bought a beautiful YAMAHA C-3 GRAND PIANO when I was already half way through my 7th release IN YOUR DREAMS! On the day I recorded this track I first did my MASTER TUNE UP of the C-3 YAMAHA and then played my part as well. I played it […]
If Lennon Were Here
Here’s a song I wrote for JOHN LENNON as I was sitting in my music room and playing the opening guitar riff and I sang IF LENNON WERE HERE by accident but then accidents sometimes lead to your best songs! I wrote this in 2008 when I was starting to record COMING OUT SWINGING for […]
With Megan, They’ll Be Beggin’
I wrote this on the piano as a classical piano song – then when I was recording another on a break I picked up my guitar and played the chords and speeded it up then I knew immediately that this was my WITH MEGAN THEY’LL BE BEGGIN’ tune as I had the title since the […]
Forever Yours, Forever Mine
Here’s my remake of a song I CO- wrote in the 90′s with LORI RIZZO called FOREVER YOURS FOREVER MINE as I wrote the music and helped with the lyrics! THE ORIGINAL RECORDING is on my 3rd release as a duet with a fantastic jazz singer SHERRY ROBERSON! I made the lyrics even better for my newest recording […]
90 Years
Here’s an example of writing a song for a loved one and in this case it’s MY DAD as I got closer to his 90th BD I decided to write him a song. So I sat down at the piano and BINGO out it came almost as soon as I started playing the chords. As […]
Welcome!
Just a short video to say hello and thank you for visiting! Hey, John Niems here. Glad that you came to my website today. I know you’re going to have a good time! I have the widest variety of music out there – as I believe. It’s smooth jazz, it’s rock, it’s pop, adult […]