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RE-TALES

George Vatchnadze’s newest gig

Access to musical information isn’t guaranteed, whether it’s limited by the resolution of a recording, your audio system, or an oppressive political regime. George Vatchnadze, concert pianist and dealer in highend audio equipment, has experience with all three.

Vatchnadze’s main early influence was his father, at their home in Georgia—the Eurasian country, not the US state—which was then part of the Soviet Union. “My father was a huge music lover, and very knowledgeable, and I grew up with records,” he told me in

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