![]() “I couldn’t even bargain with the person who was selling it. “I actually started crying the first time I played it,” Kvitko says. And Kvitko’s esteem for the piano runs to the emotional depths usually reserved for flesh-and-blood. That isn’t just any piano – it’s a 9-foot Steinway concert grand he named Bucephalus, after Alexander the Great’s horse. ![]() I don’t think I’ve ever been more nervous in my life.” “They tried a few different angles, and then they finally just forced it though. “We were using a crane to bring my piano in through one of the upstairs windows, but it was about a quarter inch too small,” he says, a hint of panic in his voice all these years later. When Sergei Kvitko was transforming the third floor of the home he shares with his partner, Jim McClurken, into a recording studio 10 years ago, he ran into a distinct problem.
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