A person who gathers the speed of 50 years

Sydney Opera House opened 50 years ago, countless music stars, world leaders and scary patrons visited his iconic halls.

The external forecourt, with thousands of naked bodies in the name of the art, and a little less naked Arnold Schwarzenegger even won the head of body construction. Updates and disputes, protests and history.

And permanently, Terry Harper through it.

Uber-technical tools regulate the pianos of the building behind the landscapes to make sure that the world’s best musicians are ready.

The opera house was opened in 1973 and is a family inherit by his father, who ended with his father’s father with his father.

The 69-year-old remembers the first time he steps into the unfinished opera house as a wide-eyed child.

“Sails were above, but all were very naked,” says Gestore to the edges of the Grand Concert Hall.

“There was nothing inside … you can see the port on both sides.”

At that time, he would spend most of his life inside the sign. His father, on the other hand, surely gave great plans.

Then the Liverpool immigrant Ron Harper was also popular on Sydney Music Scene as a piano tuner, but also a singer.

“I would lead me to the clubs as little as the small school uniforms. I would see all this world-class actions,” he said. Welsh Songsstress Dame Shirley Bassey, scene tab Liza Minelli and English TV and music Darling Cilla Blackla Blacks are in black.

“It was an interesting childhood,” Terry Surmise, with a Chuckle.

But even if it is not interested in doing the love of music in it – especially when it is not interested in doing.

Terry with a slightly mockery, acknowledged that a year of drums and school choirs before learning a one-year piano.

In 1973, the opera house officially opened by Queen II Elizabeth, he said he had the fateful call of his father.

“One day, the Sydney symphony was training below and the piano was, especially in the morning, especially well,” he said. “One of the people working here was to know my father.”

Three years later, 19-year-old Terry, after graduating from school after school, 19-year-old Terry would join under sails.

While developing his sister and trust, when he retired, when he was retiring, developing his composure and confidence, established his skills and confidence, his skills and confidence began training.

These days, he entered a room and could immediately know that the piano’s pasta ends.

“I’ve always had a very good pitch” says, “(but) it’s hard to mislead.”

And all completed with the ear.

Funning in front of the piano explains that it is 243 string. For most of the keys, three separate steel wires are combined.

“Once they start to avoid the same frequency, we have caused things that we have caused us to grow and listen when we are recognized.”

“Can you hear this?” He eagerly asks.

Unfortunately, I – a music pleb – cannot.

“It’s not like a guitar tuning,” he says a bit of flexibility to me.

The process may take 90 minutes and should be adjusted mainly when each of the 30 pianists in the building uses.

“There are many SIMs that can get out of the melody, especially when you play large piano concerts,” Terry explains.

“I am applying for these F1 racing cars … they really arming them.”

May be a required and ruthless business.

“It doesn’t stop. Night times, in the early morning, this is two and three times a day,” he said.

However, the world’s most commonly decorated musicians and the most wanted tickets in the city need to add perks covering the shoulders, which are brushing to easily access.

Terry also adapted pianos in many other prominent pianos – Royal Albert Hall and Abbey Road Studios to BBC broadcast offices.

But none of the Opera house does not take place in his heart.

“It’s a very happy place for me. This is a lot of my life.”

At the beginning of this year, it’s time to hang Terry tools after five decades.

“I’m comfortable enough during the coviet, I’m not working,” he said.

He could not be tempting to carry his son’s family – “He, like all good youth” – and so on Friday, and so on Friday, the end of Harer’s heritage inside the Sydney Opera House.

Location opened a tender for a new contractor to adjust the pianos – and Terry said he heard a rumor they could replace with several tuner.

“I think someone has a little money I have a money … I’ve done the work of 6 people.”

The jokes put aside that the wave of emotion came with him, as he approached his march.

“Piano tuners, we are staying alone,” he says. “We like to be in a room with ourselves, because you have to take care of what you do and what you do … (however) have the camera of all people working here.”

“I will miss the place.”