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Has anyone ever heard of the book Piano Tuning for Piano Players by Warren E. Colbert? If so, any thoughts? I posted this on the piano forum but so far nobody has responded that they have heard of this book.

Although executed on the same instrument, these are two very different skills. 'Never heard of the book and am not sure what the author would say except, "Be careful!"

Unless it is self published or a very short run from a vanity publisher, a date and publishers name might help.

This book was published by a publisher called Lyn Lee Lou publishing and the book came as a kit with a goose-neck tuning hammer, a couple of temperament strips, about 6 rubber wedges, a bunch of small parts like punchings and felts, a tuning fork for middle C and was published in 1985. I bought it from an ad placed in the back of Keyboard Magazine I think. I felt the book was very step by step and was formatted as a series of lessons, each lesson adding one or two skills and going from controlling the tuning hammer to tuning unison's, to tuning octaves, to tuning intervals and setting the temperament. It didn't get much into repair, but I learned how to tune a piano from this text. I was just wondering how far and wide this book was known and what was the general consensus of its quality.