Honest opinions from someone who has done this for many years.

I am a professional piano technician. I drive to your house, open your piano lid, and spend a couple of hours doing something that looks suspiciously like just turning small bolts while occasionally playing the same note thirty times. I am a member of the Piano Technician’s Guild so I take my craft seriously and continue to study. At the same time, I look at my work as being a lot of fun. I meet new people and pianos new to me.

I have been doing this for a long time - 50+ years since my time at Northwestern University where I ran out of music degrees and they told me I had to get a job. I am a practicing musician so I know how a piano should sound and should feel.

This blog is intended to educate the piano owner, from the rank beginner to the professional who is just curious about what I think about different topics. I will talk about tuning, the cost of tuning, the process of tuning, regulation, what you can and can’t expect from regulation, whether equal temperament is the best or at worst a standard compromise. We’ll see how this develops.

This should be fun and I hope you enjoy what you read and will send me your comments at tombrantigan@gmail.com or call me to set up an appointment for tuning or repair, or even fill out a contact message..

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