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1:47 pm
Tue May 8, 2012

A pitch for graduating students - following your passion is key

Credit Mercedes Mejia / Michigan Radio
Ernie Caviani lives in Ann Arbor. He's a piano tuner and technician. He has been tuning pianos for 45 years.

It's graduation season across the country, and students are deciding what they want to do with their lives.

Seventy-one-year-old Ernie Caviani is a piano tuner and technician. He says following your passion is key.

Michigan Radio producer Mercedes Mejia has this audio postcard.

Ernie Caviani: This A is vibrating at 220 beats per second. This A is supposed to vibrate, if it matches it at 440, it’s just twice as much.

In my lifetime I’ve tuned a little over 30,000 pianos.

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