Tuning the Bass

By Mark Cerisano, APTE, RPT

In early 2025, Scott Cole, Editor of the Piano Technicians Journal, asked me to write a series of articles on how I teach students to tune the bass.
Here are those articles. The concepts are presented in a varying level of complexity and accuracy. My hope, when writing these articles, was that beginners and advanced tuners would be able to get something out of them.