{"id":305,"date":"2010-11-03T10:51:56","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T14:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hpianoservice.com\/"},"modified":"2017-07-09T12:51:08","modified_gmt":"2017-07-09T16:51:08","slug":"brief-bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hpianoservice.com\/about\/brief-bio\/","title":{"rendered":"Brief Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hpianoservice.com\/home-2\/samhaasenritter\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-136\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-136\" title=\"Sam\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hpianoservice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/samhaasenritter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"171\" height=\"196\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 1996, Sam Haasenritter, RPT, began a two-year apprenticeship with a third generation piano shop and later supplemented it with academic studies in piano technology.\u00a0 He graduated with highest honors in 1999.\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">In 2000, Sam passed the Piano Technicians Guild\u2019s (PTG) demanding examinations to become a Registered Piano Technician (RPT).\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Over the next several years, he attended regional and national PTG conventions, completed two week-long training seminars (including one with Yamaha) and secured two phenomenal Steinway-trained mentors.\u00a0 2005 was particularly noteworthy as Sam spent three intense weeks training in Vienna at the world-renowned B\u00f6sendorfer factory.\u00a0 In order to remedy a significant blind spot in the pedagogy curriculum, he created the t\u00b3<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">\u00a0Piano Institute in 2009.\u00a0 Most recently, in the\u00a0 spring of 2016, he became Georgia\u2019s first WNG Certified Installer of carbon fiber action parts. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Currently, Sam provides Atlanta with quality piano service, satisfies the discriminating tastes of concert artists (which have included Elton John, Andreas Klein and George Winston) and educates the musical community about harnessing the full potential of both the piano and the pianist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1996, Sam Haasenritter, RPT, began a two-year apprenticeship with a third generation piano shop and later supplemented it with academic studies in piano technology.\u00a0 He graduated with highest honors in 1999.\u00a0In 2000, Sam passed the Piano Technicians Guild\u2019s (PTG) demanding examinations to become a Registered Piano Technician (RPT).\u00a0 Over the next several years, he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hpianoservice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/305"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hpianoservice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hpianoservice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hpianoservice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hpianoservice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hpianoservice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":557,"href":"https:\/\/hpianoservice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/305\/revisions\/557"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hpianoservice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hpianoservice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}