"I was fascinated by the way Stefan communicated the minutiae of making music. Documentary-maker Robert Cibis met Knüpfer one afternoon as he tuned a baby grand belonging to his brother, Paul, and instantly knew he had found an ideal subject. Pianomania began as a pipe-dream in 1999. In the pursuit of perfection, Knüpfer bounces tennis balls on piano strings, replaces the leg of one instrument with a cheap violin as an experiment – and spends an entire year working on one piano until it's the ideal instrument on which to play an unfinished masterpiece by Bach. The film takes us into the life of Steinway's piano technician Stefan Knüpfer as he works on the instruments of the world's greatest virtuosos. But Pianomania, a delicate Austrian documentary about the painstaking work of a master piano-tuner, has spent the last six months scooping up international awards. I t does not, at first, seem the most promising of premises.
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