Pianist · Piano technician · Developer

Plays it, tunes it, writes the software for it.

Grant Larcom performs and records on keys, tunes and regulates instruments as a technician, and writes the software musicians use to practice: piano.wiki, Savvy Pianist, MidiRoll, Vivace.

Grant Larcom playing a grand piano under stage lighting
Photo · Eric Morgensen
Setting a tuning pin with a lever on the pinblock of a Story & Clark grand

Currently

Playing keys through the fall · taking tunings in-region · shipping the next MidiRoll release.

The projects

Written, tuned, and shipped by one person

A piano being played outdoors for passers-by

Nonprofit

ResonatePiano.org

Bringing music to the people. One piano at a time.

Resonate brings piano services to underprivileged and underfunded schools, nursing homes, and individuals.

Touch a key

A4 = 440 Hz · equal temperament

Last note:

Listen

Three standards.

About

Grant Larcom came to tuning the way most technicians do, by needing a better instrument than the one in the room. Years later the three parts of the work are inseparable: the ear that finds a beat in a unison is the same ear that shapes a pad under a vocal, and the same impatience that fixes an action ends up writing the software.

He plays keys on stage and on sessions, regulates actions and voices hammers as a technician, and builds: piano.wiki began as the answers he kept repeating, Savvy Pianist grew out of teaching adults told they'd started too late, MidiRoll came from wanting to see a performance rather than describe it, and Vivace is where the rest of the software goes. ResonatePiano.org is the part that isn't a business.

Available for session and touring keys, in-region tunings, and a small number of consults and build collaborations each month.

Notes from the bench

One letter a month: what I'm practicing, what broke, what I fixed, what's shipping.

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