Piano Tuning

I sometimes chuckle to myself about how “colorful and quaint” piano tuning is as an occupation. So though I might refer to myths as being baseless, incorrect, wrong or at best half true, the fact is that to some degree these quaint notions contribute to the colorfulness of my field. Here are a few examples.

1. It is best to know how to play the piano in order to be a good piano tuner and the corollary; if you tune pianos, you must be able to play them.
2. To offset dryness, place a cup of water inside(the bottom) of your piano and that will fix it.
3. Piano tuning is primarily for the purpose of making the piano sound better.
4. If you are not playing your piano much you don’t need to tune it as often.
5. The “modern” tuning of equal temperament came into use in the baroque era.
6. Johann Sebastian Bach instituted equal temperament and sought to prove its usefulness, perfection, and practicality by composing the Well Tempered Clavier.
7. Tuning a piano must be accomplished totally by listening and not by any other method.

Another myth that isn’t directly tied to piano tuning can be logically proven to be a myth nevertheless, through Piano Tuning. I refer to “The Myth of Perfect Pitch.”

Yes, I will say it again. I CAN PROVE THAT SO CALLED “PERFECT PITCH” IS A MYTH, A MISNOMER AT BEST AND I WILL IN THE NEAR TERM PRESENT THIS PROOF ON THIS BLOG.