Piano Tuning and Repair Courses
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Introductory Courses
Traditional Piano Tuning Method
This method is perfect for people who want to learn the traditional method of tuning a piano. This is the method that piano tuners have used for over one hundred 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 an App
ETDs are great but they cannot tune clean and stable unisons for you. This course will teach you that. It is the fastest way to get high-quality tunings with clean and stable unisons (Includes Stability and 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
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.
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.