Pianos sound their very best when they are tuned to the international pitch standard of A-440. What A-440 means is the note “A” above middle C will vibrate at 440 cycles per second. To do this, a piano tuner will make minute adjustments to the tensions of the strings of a piano to properly align […]
Continue readingYour piano is an amazing instrument! It has more than 10,000 individual parts that need to be properly maintained in order to keep it looking and sounding great. A Registered Piano Technician (or RPT) is a technician or tuner who is required to pass a rigorous series of tests administered by the Piano Technicians Guild. […]
Continue readingI had a wonderful opportunity to tune this Mason & Hamlin Upright with some VERY unusual tuning pins! First thing you notice on this piano is all that metal up front! Anyway, I was pleased to find the tuning lever was hiding on the inside to the left of the hammers with some notes on […]
Continue readingCan you guess how many pianos Brigham Larson has tuned in his lifetime? I was wondering the same thing and asked him. He started at age 17, when he emptied his sock drawer of change and paid for his first mentor. Brigham later turn his hobby into something to help pay for college at BYU. […]
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