This will be most likely the reason you contact me: to tune your piano. I will arrive promptly at the time you set and will be very respectful of your house. For example, I have only moccasins. I’ll start with reviewing the state of your piano and any concerns or issues you have. Before I start to tune, we will have discussed what needs to be done and what the price will be. Typically, I will then vacuum what can be reached without removing the action, although a deeper cleaning can be done at a slightly extra charge.
Being a retired aerospace engineer, I am in no hurry to rush through your tuning. Typically, it’s an hour before I even start tuning. You and I will start by reviewing the state of your piano and any concerns or issues you have. We will have discussed what needs to be done, what can be put off till later, what can be ignored, and what the price will be. I will then vacuum what can be reached without removing the action, although a deeper cleaning can be done for those pianos that have built up decades of dust and accumulated coins and toys from years of children.
I initially use an Electronic Tuning Device to begin the tuning, then put it away and finish the tuning aurally, listening to how the piano sounds and what sounds proper and in tune.
Artists and performances I’ve had the honor of tuning
Some different types of pianos I work with
