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I did some searches but I haven't reached the posts I want to know. Sorry if this is a repeat. I'd like to learn to know how to tune a piano. Is there a class to take? They probably will cover what tools to get + the ETD ( ) device. I'm just a beginner with music, period! In a few members of the family, we have older pianos sitting around, it would be great to be about to get them close to be in tuned.

Thank you for your help.

There really has been a lot of discussion on this in the past, no offense intended. Maybe you need some different search terms:

Try "Randy Potter course" and "Reblitz book." Just to get you started.

If you're serious, be prepared to put in more study and practice than you're probably thinking at present.

Jeff

Thank you for your response. I will look into the terms you suggested. I tried a few of my own terms but they didn't come up that helpful.

I will give it some serious thoughts because I'm not sure if I will have the opportunities to tune enough pianos to be good at it.

This is definitely a Frequently Asked Question. But I looked in the Tuner-technicians FAQ and there is no thread on this subject yet. So I just spent a fair it of time compiling information and writing a post in that Forum. Wouldn't you know it - I had about a dozen windows open all over my desktop and accidentally closed the wrong one - oops - there went my carefully crafted know-it-all answer. Dang

But actually, I got all the information from the archives here. Click on the "search" link at the top of any page. Type in the key words: "learn to tune piano" or "learning piano tuning".

I got 83 threads and was able to pull out around ten that had all the information a person needs to head off in the right direction.

So try that and good luck.

And maybe you could be persuaded to make the appropriate posting in the Tuner-Technicians FAQ Forum???

Hahaha, Jurgen, you should post that one in "Don't you hate it when..." That's maddening! Or, a computer crash or, lightening and thunder storm and poof, powers out stuff's gone...

Or:
someone asking the same old question for the zillionth time...

But it is not their fault. At least not directly. Nowadays everyone expects instant results, an immediate response. Everyone thinks their issues are so unique and pressing...
Research? Digging for an answer? Nawww - not me!

Pass the spoon and fill it up with the good stuff! :rolleyes:

This question seriously deserves to be in the Tuner-Tech FAQ.
I nominate you, Jerry...

Outa here - it's been a long, hard day... so please forgive any steppingon delicate toes

I'm sorry that I put it in the wrong category. In all honesty, I did some search and I got very much what you suggested, Supply. Most of the posts weren't what I hope for, so I posted one... I thought maybe I get lucky and got a good response directly.

By all means, if you have the connection at this site and able to move this to Tuner-Tech FAQ is OK by me.

There are many ways to learn to tune a piano. And there are many different levels of success. Don't let anyone tell you, you can't do it without years of training. I teach piano tuning. I know. With good instruction, and musical ability and mechanical aptitude, you can learn to tune pianos fairly quickly. Some people will disagree but I have seen it. But I believe it is imperative that you have an exceptional instructor. Avoid correspondence courses without having personal instruction from a highly qualified teacher with experience teaching piano tuning. It can be done and it is such a rewarding skill, you should try to learn it if it interests you.

Mark,

Do you realize that you are responding to a thread from April of 2028?

You mean 2008.

(OOPS) But then in this barrage of salesmanship, he might have searched for posts yet to come.

Jbyron,

You post was much better before you edited it!

Besides that Mark, is against forum rules for you to be promoting your own business as you are doing. I also completely disagree as will others here, that learning to tune pianos WELL is not nearly as simple as you make it seem. Just because you happe to teach a tuning course.... Better go back and re-read Piano World rules and regulations....

Hi Marty, I already forgot what I said! What did I write?

Jbyron,

Kinda sorta the same as what Jerry just said. I think we are all getting tired of the Mark persons self promotion.

Oh yeah. Along the lines of what Jerry said. I disagree with what Mark is selling, I mean saying here.

I apologize if it seemed too much that I was selling something. Was it my signature that made you feel that way? I tried very hard not to appear that way and I tried to keep my comments focused on the question, which was how to learn to tune a piano. I was trying to emphasize the importance of getting a good instructor. I guess I should have added mentor to that list. I responded to this post because I thought other people who wanted to learn to tune pianos, might read it and I was really talking to them. Again, I apologize and in the future, I will try to abide by the rules.

Well at last you are not hiding, so may be it can be seen as a bit of self promotion, but I would tend to agree that when understanding the process correctly, having good musical ability and good tactile ability, one with a tad of gift can be a reasonable tuner (on easy pianos) after one year training (and begin to obtain some results sooner)

To begin to tune at a professional level is another matter, as pianos differ, and one have to gain lot of experience, plus develop his taste for tone, this can take years and imply to listen to music played on different instruments, old and recent, by different pianists, trying to work on the best instruments available, for the best pianists available, etc...

Learning to keep his own piano in an acceptable tuning shape is probably possible if well instructed, but I would say if you have a very good piano, only an experienced tuner will make it sing .

Also keeping regulations and voicing in shape is a speciality, particularly knowing to do that in a very short time window, as it is necessary in music schools.

Even here where the tuner's level is generally decent, only a very small percentage of professionals know how to react in front of a slightly un regulated piano, or a begin of hammer wear.
Maintenance...

+1 to Jerry Groot and Kamin