New IPTS Self-Certification Course

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!

New Hearing Test for Piano Tuners

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.

Watch the seminar I gave to the Southeast Piano Technicians Guild on the Mark Cerisano (Go A.P.E.) Aural Piano Tuning System

Read my articles that have been published in the Piano Technicians Journal

"You NEED to train your ear!"

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.

Learn how to regulate pianos for the best speed, power and feel with the regulation triangle!

The Regulation Triangle is a NEW way of thinking about regulation settings in terms of how the 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.

FREE Lesson on Coincident Partials and Check Notes

In order to tune a piano by ear, we need to set intervals sizes that are not pure. When interval sizes and not pure, they beat at the Coincidental Partial. To set and check the interval size, you need to know where the Check Note is. The 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 FREE PDF!

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 how the pros do it!

Upright 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.

Recommended Piano Tuning Software

The GO A.P.E. Aural Piano Tuning System is the MOST accurate, precise and efficient piano tuning method ever developed, but it wasn't developed without the help of some very powerful software.

These 3 software tool supercharge your ability to quickly achieve exceptional aural piano tuning results. Try them out.

These are required for all the piano tuning courses on the site.