Archive for 'tuner'

Piano Tuner Jim Connolly interview

How to become a piano tuner, the qualifications for someone interested in becoming a tuner, the lifestyle, and why many classical music composers are trained as piano tuners.

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.

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.

Victor Borge, The Piano Tuner

Wow!  What a funny video about a guy who is supposed to tune pianos but instead, decide to play them most of the time and having fun instead of the hard work involved in tuning a piano.

Amateur piano tuning tutorial

DISCLAIMER : Tune your piano at your own risk! Here are a few basic rules to remember: – If you tune a string and the sound does not change, STOP immediatly you are probably tuning the wrong string. Check again. You could break a string easily. – Don’t do this on an expensive piano – If you have been trying for more than a few minutes to get a string in tune, have a coffe (of whatever you like) – Sometimes (especially on older piano) even a single string can sound like if it was out of tune. Just try and make the best of it but that’s just because of imperfections of the piano. That string will always sound like that. – Be indulgent with your tuning results. If you really don’t like how you tuned your piano, call a professional tuner.