The Piano Questions and Answers

Monday, April 18, 2011

Ross Joyner Services, Piano Doctor: Piano Tuning by a Professional Piano Tuner ! Piano Tuning is our Passion ! The Piano Doctors piano tuner has a reputation for both quality craftsmanship and superior piano tuning. He has been tuning pianos for over 35 years. Ross Joyner is our piano tuner and has tuned for some of the top professional musicians in the USA. Ross tuned for Baldwin Artists for years. A piano tuner adjusts strings one at a time through all 220 strings on a piano to bring a piano in to tune (A440). Piano tuning is the act of making minute adjustments to the tensions of the strings of a piano to properly align the intervals between their tones so that the instrument is in tune. The meaning of the term in tune in the context of piano tuning is not simply a particular fixed set of pitches. Fine piano tuning requires an assessment of the interaction between notes, which is different for every piano, thus in practice requiring slightly different pitches from any theoretical standard. Pianos are usually tuned to a modified version of the system called equal temperament. In all systems of tuning, every pitch may be derived from its relationship to a chosen fixed pitch, which is usually A440.