SERVICES
​The same quality service, whether a tuning in your home for a beginning student or for a celebrity performer in a famous concert venue, I bring the same professional experience and  craft dedication to your instrument.

​You deserve professional care!
TUNING
THE TRUTH ABOUT STAYING IN TUNE:

I am a trained concert tuner and was taught by technicians that worked for Horowitz and Rubenstein that  the piano is to be as in tune at the end of the concerto as it was at the beginning. How often the piano is played should have the LEAST effect on the tuning.

Piano manufacturers recommend tuning the instrument at least twice a year. However, there are times when pianos need additional tuning. The farther the pitch needs to be corrected the shorter amount of time it will stay in tune

A  piano is a work of art. Therefore, to treat it rough, carelessly or negligent it is to commit a crime against a beautiful piece of craftsmanship. To pay money for a fine piano and then allow it to go to ruin for lack of expert care is not merely aesthetically wrong it is bad economics. If a piano is neglected, if it be allowed to go through from one season to another, say, from Spring to Winter, without tuning, it will probably, at the end of that time, be considerably lower in pitch than it was originally. It will have gone through a rise, followed by a fall, and the fall will be greater than the first rise.

No matter what any salesman may say, no matter how well the piano may be made, no matter, in fact, what the physical circumstances, the price or weather conditions may be, there is no such thing as a piano standing month after month in tune. The better the piano, the more frequent and careful tuning it should have.
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TOUCH REGULATION
Action regulation is much more than making a key play. A well regulated piano plays, feels, and responds with much more sensitivity and evenly than a piano that has not been adjusted in several years time.

Regulation adjusts and aligns the thousands of moving action parts within your piano, compensating for wear, rising and falling humidity levels, and aging. Regulating evens out the responsiveness and "touch" of every key, adjusts and returns the speed of repetition and maximizes the power and control of dynamic expression. 

A master piano technician is able to adjust the touch to the player's preference.

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VOICING
Piano voicing is the process of adjusting the density of the felts covering the hammers striking the string to produce a warmer or brighter tone.

One of your piano's most important assets is its tone. Properly voiced, your piano can offer you a rich palette of music expression, and inspire good practice habits in every member of your family. However, piano owners are not always aware that tone can be customized to their own tastes and room acoustics, and to correct for deterioration and age. If the only service your piano has received is tuning, the sound can be improved by voicing. 

ONLY TO BE DONE BY EXPERIENCED  PROFESSIONALS!  
a bad tuning or regulation can be corrected an inept voicing can result in your piano needing a new set of hammers. I have voiced piano for major recording studios, performance venues and concert performers around the world.
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