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"Concert level tuning results in months, not years!"
The only place in the world to learn the Go A.P.E. Aural Piano Tuning System for more Accurate, Precise, and Efficient aural piano tunings.
"I tuned my first concert tuning after one year of studying this method and the pianist wants me to tune his piano now." - Ionwyn Buckland, Piano Technician, Australia
"I followed up one of your students on a concert grand and I only found one note that I might change. Excellent work!" - Keith Atkins, Professional Piano Technician, Past editor of the Piano Technicians Journal. (Student was 19 and had studied Go A.P.E. for less than one year)
"It's inspiring. It works" - Robert Peters (Jazz Pianist)
"I can't get enough of it" - Michael S. (Beginning Technician)
"I'm more confident because of this system" - Mike Kidd (Beginning Technician)
"The Go APE System has cut 35-45 minutes off my tuning time." - Robert Turner (Professional Technician, 40+ years)
For years, people have been signing up to have access to only our piano tuning courses, even though we offer private lessons with personalized feedback. Click this link to learn why and get your own FREE access to see what's behind the paid member wall.
Now, not only can you take courses and watch videos on piano tuning, but you can actually score yourself and become certified as an Aural Piano Tuner, APTU, with the International Piano Technicians School!
The only tuners who can do good tunings are those who can hear the individual beating partials of an impure interval. Take this test to find out how well you can hear partials. Bonus: you will get free lessons and videos on how to hear beats more easily.
Listen to unsolicited comments during class concerning the quality of the howtotunepianos website and the teaching methods used, and watch an interview with Mike, a young piano tech who has just started learning the trade.
o Produce concert level tunings in months not years.
o Beat the most expensive ETD's after 5 - 6 months.
o Watch this video to see how it's done.
Are you looking for some informative articles that have been published in the Piano Technicians Journal of the Piano Technicians Guild? You've come to the right place. Just click below to read four of my best articles on piano tuning.
And you'd better start now! If you want to tune pianos by ear then there is no getting around this fact. And there are NO short cuts. So come on! Get with it! Click the button to read more.
The Regulation Triangle is a NEW way of thinking about regulation settings in terms of how they affect the musicality of the piano. The piano can have more power, play faster, and with more finesse depending on these settings. With the Regulation Triangle, the piano tells you the best way to regulate it.
Coincidental Partials and Check Notes - How to Use Them
In order to tune a piano by ear, we need to set intervals sizes that are not pure. When interval sizes are not pure, they beat at the Coincidental Partial. To set and check the interval size, you need to know where the Check Note is. This lesson explains it all!
Ear Training for Piano Tuners
Learn what piano tuners listen for. Take the tests. See if you have the ear to be a piano tuner.
Piano Tuning Methods and Tools
This FREE PDF is a concise and informative document on the methods professional piano tuners use to tune pianos, and the tools they use. Get this Free PDF and learn what how the pros do it!
Upright and grand piano regulation
These are based on the steps outlined in "Piano Servicing, Tuning, and Rebuilding: For the Professional, the Student, and the Hobbyist" by Arthur Reblitz. However, they have been modified to be more practical.
Score Your Temperament
How good is your temperament? For equal temperament, we try to tune M3's to increase in speed smoothly and evenly and to have uniformly wide P4's, but are we really sure they are what we think they are after we are done? Send me a simple recording and I will measure it for you and you will find out.
Recommended Piano Tuning Software
The Go A.P.E. Aural Piano Tuning System is the MOST Accurate, Precise, and Efficient aural piano tuning method ever developed, but it wasn't developed without the help of some very powerful software.
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These are required for all the piano tuning courses on this site.