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How to Tune Pianos

The Hobby, Skill, and Career of Piano Tuning

By Mark Cerisano

Piano Tuning and Repair Courses


Introductory Courses

Basic Piano Tuning Method

This method is perfect for people who just want a basic understanding of the traditional piano tuning methods. I used this method to make money tuning pianos for many years.

Piano Tuning Theory

In order for you to understand the following piano tuning courses, you need to have a minimum understanding of piano tuning theory which this course gives you.

Ear Training for Piano Tuners

This course focuses primarily on improving and testing your "Tuner's Ear". Being able to clearly hear small differences in beat speeds is a required skill if you are to be able to tune a piano by ear, and this course will fast track that skill for you. Save time and get your "Tuner's Ear" now!


ETD Tuning with Pure and Stable Unisons

Tuning a Piano with PianoMeter

ETDs are great but they cannot tune clean and stable unisons for you. This course is the fastest way to get high-quality tunings the will please even the most critical pianist. (Includes Superior Stability and Superior Unisons Course)


The Mark Cerisano Tuning System (Formerly the Go A.P.E. System)

Get high quality concert level aural tunings using Interval Tests, DSU, and Superior Unisons and Stability

How to Get Superior Stability

Learn how to analyze the Non-Speaking Length Tension in order to produce stable tunings, without using excessive hard blows, that even the most powerful pianist will not budge.

How to Get Superior Unisons

You need to be able to tune clean unisons if you want to do a professional piano tuning. Anything less just sounds Honky Tonk. This course explains the theory of clean unisons, how to get them, what does it mean when someone says the unison is too clean, what is a "swelling" or "blooming" unison, how to get it, etc.

Learn how to analyze the Non-Speaking Length Tension in order to produce stable tunings, without using excessive hard blows, that even the most powerful pianist will not budge.

With the Mark Cerisano Tuning System, we get more accurate, precise, and efficient tunings by using feedback to let the piano tell us what tuning is best for it.

Watch as I tune a piano and comment on each step as I go.

These are recordings of my online classes


Repair, Regulation, and Voicing

This course includes videos that describe the basic steps needed to regulate upright and grand pianos. It also includes instructions on how to voice hammers to improve tone. Includes the Regulation Triangle.

This course makes understanding regulation easy by using common musicality concepts. It's not just a list of steps, it helps you understand how and why the adjustments work.

The course contains videos that describe the specific steps needed to perform many piano repairs.

Recordings of the live Repair/Regulation classes.

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