David the Piano Tuner

David Bloom, a member of the guild for many years died on Friday 10th February 2017 after an heroic battle with Motor Neurone Disease.

Although a qualified pastry cook David decided to change careers In 1985. He enrolled in a piano tuning course at the NSW Conservatorium of Music in Sydney and became qualified in early 1986. For the next few years he worked restoring and refurbishing pianos at Robert Rogerie’s Hawthorn workshop and during this time gradually built up his piano tuning business. By the year 2010 the charm of “dinging away on pianos” as he put it, had waned, and he began making plans to wind back on the tuning side of the business and follow his real passion “piano restoration”. David was diagnosed with the disease in October 2012 and by early 2013 he had to stop work. When he announced to his clients that he was ceasing work there was a huge and compassionate response. It seems that his work was quite highly regarded and he was warmly embraced by them.

Many of the clients continued to keep contact with David as his health continued to decline and quite a few attended his funeral service.

He was just 56 years old and died far too young.