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Hi future piano tuner

Mario Bruneau photoI’m glad you’ve made it to this page.

If you landed here, chances are you’re looking for information about tuning your own piano.  Well this is your lucky day because I’m about to share with you all the passion and knowledge acquired during my 35+ years as a professional piano tuner-technician and 10 years teaching others the art of piano tuning.

I will show you all the steps needed in order to succeed learning how to safely tune your own piano.

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Muting techniques for piano tuning 2

Tuning technique – rubber mutes. A remake of the other video with more close-ups and (hopefully!) better sound

Why would it take forever to tune a piano?

Suppose you have just bought an excellent concert grand piano and you want it to be put in perfect tune. So you summon a first-rate piano tuner who tunes the piano by matching it to selected tuning forks. He sounds the piano and fork together and listens for beats. How long will it take the piano tuner to do a perfect tuning job? The answer is about forever. Why?

Is it hard to tune a piano by yourself?

Where can I find specific instructions and tools?

Piano tuning key striker

Hand protection while piano tuning. Key striker options

Piano tuning Tunelab muteless pitch raise

Using Tunelab for a pocket pc – Spectrum graph allows for pre-tuning without muting the piano

PST4 Piano Demo

Demonstration of piano tuning using the PST4.  For advance users and for those of you who can afford a $500 machine.  Very good.

Piano tuning – damper height adjustment

Grand piano – adjusting the dampers for proper lift.

Piano tuning – string leveling

Focusing tone using string leveling on a grand piano. Piano tuning basics

Piano Tuning School FAQ part 1

Learn all about what the Piano Tuning School has to offer.

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