Category Archives: piano tuner

Why Does Your Piano Goes Out of Tune?

One of the things that makes piano tuning such an enigma and an intangible for piano owners is in their understanding the cause and effect mechanism of pianos going in and out of tune. Many think of wood as an inert material that was once alive when it was part of a tree.

That is not the case. All wood is porous and a living material. In this video, I demonstrate (with the help of my daughter Yael) how moisture or lack of moisture causes the expansion and contraction of wood and I show how and why your piano goes in and out of tune.

In “Tuning and Caring for Your   Instrument“, I also show how I safeguard my piano against the destructive alternating forces and effects of dryness and humidity.

 

Eighteen Century Esthetics

How eighteenth century aesthetics play into piano tuning.

This is the second installment of my 2000 presentation at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. See The Lost Sounds of Music and Musical Demonstrations of Historical Keyboard Tunings and if you missed Piano Tuning Past & Present.

Piano Tune History | Piano Tuning Past & Present

All piano tunings are historical. This Temperament Recital shows how that is the case. See next video.

Questions

I am putting this out there for anybody who has any questions about piano tuning or pianos in general.

Please tell me what your question is and I will do my best to answer it. Bear in mind that it might take a little time for me to get back to you but if you are willing to be a little bit patient, I will get respond. If for some reason you don’t hear from me please just remind me that you tried to contact me.

You can ask me a question by simply posting a comment on this blog post. To do that you will have to get a user name and password from wordpress.com if you don’t have one already. But that only takes a minute as WordPress makes it all very easy to do.

Look forward to talking to you!

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