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for HowToTunePianos.com
- Here you will find a listing of all the courses available for you to purchase.
- If you have signed up for the Mentor Program, or Accelerated Program, or the Video Course, CLICK HERE for instructions on how to start your lessons!
- In each course, there are FREE lessons so that you can get an idea how powerful these courses are.
- Once inside each course, you will see a link where you can purchase the entire course.
Courses
Click the links for the courses below and you will be able to take one or two of the paid lessons for free.
NEW & UPDATED COURSES!!!
The following three courses are meant to be taken together.
They contain all the information and steps needed to tune a piano with an ETD and pure, stable unisons!
Tuning a Piano with an ETD to make Pure and Stable Unisons
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.
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.
Free Courses
Self-Study Certification Course
Try this new course that shows you how to score yourself while following the IPTS System. For a limited time, the cost is free as I create the videos. Soon, it will be closed and only available to paying students. Try it out now while it is free. Use the top button to sign up. If you've already signed up, received your account information, and logged in, use the Access Course button to access the videos.
Aptitude Tests
These tests are designed to give you some feedback on whether or not learning to tune pianos is right for you. They in no way pretend to be complete, but they do give some relevant feedback. If somebody really wants to do something and they've got passion, some lack of ability or experience can be overcome.
Piano Tuning Myths
This is what started it all. A search to determine what information out there pertaining to piano tuning was actually accurate, relevant, and true. This course busts many preconceived ideas about piano tuning that make it unnecessarily difficult to learn piano tuning.
Free Resources
Introductory Courses
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!
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.
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.
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.
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 Go A.P.E. Aural Piano Tuning System, we tune A4 from the E.T.D. because it is the most Accurate, Precise, and Efficient way to do it. Learn how and why.
Watch as I tune a piano and comment on each step as I go.
These are recordings of my online classes
Follow these simple steps and easily score your own tuning units. Keep all your recordings and after you have completed all the units, we will request a few units just to check that you did the scoring properly. Then all you have to do is pass an independent review by a local professional piano technician and then you will a APTU with the IPTS.
Repair and Regulation
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.
This Video Book describes the powerful Regulation Triangle Method that helps technicians visualize how key dip, let off, and blow distance affect aftertouch.
The course contains videos that describe the specific steps needed to perform many piano repairs.
Recordings of the live Repair/Regulation classes.