Cole Porter's piano, which sat in the lobby of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel after his death, is now being restored at the Steinway factory in Astoria, Queens. The man who presides over this procedure has 45 years with Steinway and his grandfather who was blind was a tuner there. Sound your A! The Waldorf is also having a face lift scheduled to reopen in 2021 primarily as condos. Porter did most of his work at night and had installed "acoustical mud" to deaden the sound of his piano in deference to his neighbors who included Herbert Hoover in the 1930s.
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