At 95, Dolf Hantelmann closes the lid on piano-tuning career

Dolf Hantelmann was six, maybe seven, when he first discovered he had a gift.
Sitting quietly in the room of a home in Rotterdam in the late 1920s, his uncle’s fingers dancing across the black and white keys of the family piano, he heard a flawed note.
It struck him as odd.
In fact, it did more than that. It annoyed him deeply.
“I hear if a piano is out of tune and it bothers me,” the 95-year-old said Friday.
Saturated in the sounds of cellos, violins, and pianos while gro