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Chattanoogan: Robert Sims Keeping Pianos In Tune All Over Chattanooga Thursday, December 17, 2020 - by John Wilson Robert Sims Pianos may have somewhat gone out of vogue with today s endless supply of other diversions, but Robert Sims still stays busy keeping the ivories in tune all over the city. Mr. Sims said when he started out in the tuning business in 1993 there were 12 local piano firms. Now there is only Summitt Pianos on Hixson Pike. The number of full time piano tuners is down too. There are about seven of us who do 90 percent of the business, he said. Mr. Sims says, It s a worldwide trend with fewer and fewer people taking lessons and playing the piano. There s a wide gamut of other forms of entertainment nowadays. ....