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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 knowledge I have 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

muting remake for piano tuning

A remake of previous muting videos. Adds Papps mute

Grand Piano Cleaning

Demonstration on how to clean your grand piano. This video depicts the 3 major areas you as a grand piano owner can clean.

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

Piano tuning – damper height adjustment

Grand piano – adjusting the dampers for proper lift.

Sam Smith the Blind Piano Tuner

See how this gentleman manipulate his tuning lever.

He is a perfect example where the use of the ball handle piano tuning lever would greatly help him and reduce hand injuries.

Please also notice and the ending of this video the acoustics of that church.  Churches are among the most difficult places to tune pianos because of the big resonating (reverb) sound.

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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