An uncle of mine born to a timber merchant in Jan 1890 in Dalston, Hackney, left London for Wellington in May 1908, his occupation on the manifest was "tuner" . News reports in NZ papers expand this to "piano tuner". So he must have learned the skill in Dalston as a teenager - How? His family are not known to be musical. On the web I have found an account of the job at [1]http://www.piano-tuners.org/history/piano-tuner-history.html Does anyone know anything about this as a job for a middle class Jew in London at that period? Bryan Diamond London References 1. http://www.piano-tuners.org/history/piano-tuner-history.html