Archive for 'piano tuning how to'

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 tuners

Even if you are left handed, you can still tune pianos like this gentleman here.

At the end, he gives a little demonstration about harmonizing the hammer heads.

Piano Tuning

Yet another bad tuning hammer manipulation technique.

This gentleman is wrenching the tuning hammer which will loosen the tuning pins.

Holding the tuning lever at 4 o’clock is not good either.

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.

Why should you have your piano tuned often?

Piano tuning wire splice

A very good video showing how to tie a knot in piano wire. It is a tutorial using soft iron wire for practice.  For advance piano technicians, not for the DIY type of person how is just starting to learn how to tune their own piano.

This person is very knowledgeable.  Good training video for advance piano tuner-tech.

Piano tuning – fine tuning

Fundamentals of fine tuning during piano tuning