March 30

7 Reasons Why You Need Concert Level Tuning Skills! (There’s not just one!)

Tuning Pianos

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Being able to do a concert level tuning has many advantages.

The first one being the most obvious - you can successfully tune for a concert or professional musician - but there are many peripheral benefits that you may not have considered.

Many beginner and experienced piano technicians have been known to respond to the idea of getting concert level tuning skills with responses like, "Oh, I don't want to tune for concerts. Too much stress.", or "I am happy just tuning for my residential customers."

If you feel this way about getting concert level tuning skills, you are missing out on all these benefits that can improve your business and the service you provide for your customers.

  1. Sometimes we are in a bind and having concert level skills means you can speed up your tunings and while they won't be concert level, they will be as good as your old tunings, but you will have been able to finish in record time!
  2. You get to provide better tunings for your residential customers. Aren't they worth it?
  3. With improved results, you can now feel confident to raise your rates if you wish, and be confident that you are worth the extra fee.
  4. Having concert level skills means less frustration and more job satisfaction.
  5. Finally be confident when someone doesn't want you to tune their piano anymore that is wasn't because of your tuning skill.
  6. No more feeling inadequate when speaking with other more skilled technicians.

The International Piano Technician School (iPTS) teaches the Go A.P.E. aural piano tuning system for more Accurate, Precise, and Efficient aural piano tunings.

Watch the videos below to learn how we do things differently so that motivated students routinely get concert level tunings in months instead of years.

https://vimeo.com/812558727

About the author 

Mark Cerisano, RPT, B.Sc.(Mech.Eng.)

Instructor and Founder, howtotunepianos.com

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