GERMANTOWN (WPVI) -- Geza Mika can easily play a Bach invention from memory. He says it was his strong ear that led him to lessons at an early age.

"I could hear things and reproduce them on the piano," says Mika, who now works for Cunningham Piano . "I started when I was eight and I actually played through high school."

In college, he studied architecture and got into furniture restoration, while also keeping music in his life. In 2016, he went to trade school in Boston.

"I am a piano technician," he says.

Mika has worked at Cunningham Piano's Restoration Factory in Germantown since 2018.

"It's got all new parts," he says of the piano he's currently working on in his office. "We only rebuild instruments here and we have three other showrooms."

Rich Galassini is co-owner of the

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