
“Lena, a 58-year-old piano tuner, lived alone in a cluttered apartment above a s…
“Lena, a 58-year-old piano tuner, lived alone in a cluttered apartment above a shuttered music school. After her son died in a car crash at 16, she stopped playing the piano altogether. She still tuned others’ instruments, though poorly, for free, because she believed music could “hold grief without breaking.” One rainy evening, she heard […]