Question : Where can I go to learn to tune a piano?
It seems like every piano I encounter besides the ones at school, at home or on stage is disgustingly out of tune. I want to learn to tune pianos and volunteer my skill at places that have old, un-tuned, dis-repaired pianos.
I’ve heard it’s a skill you can learn in college, but I want to learn it now. What can I do to learn that?
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Best answer:

Answer by Tinpanallycat
For a few HUNDRED YEARS the time honored way to learn piano tuning has been to APPRENTICE to a master piano tuner and learn the techniques over SEVERAL YEARS… I don’t know of any Junior College that teaches it, but there may be one. and you DON’T LEARN IT “NOW” you learn it OVER TIME… and the MAIN THING IS.. you need to be able to PLAY the piano when you are done.

I spent 2 years working for a big music store, servicing large CHURCH ORGANS and THEATER ORGANS and quickly realized the FIRST thing I had to do, before starting on any repairs, was to PLAY the beast.. then do the repairs and then run the manuals.. EVERY KEY with EVERY STOP to make sure I had not missed something.. and FINALLY.. I would play a 15 to 30 minute CONCERT for my own amusement and, quite often, for the enjoyment of the church staff.

During that 2 years, I had many opportunities to work with the PIANO TUNER who worked for the store. He was an old German who had learned his trade as a APPRENTICE in Germany, and I was privileged to learn many of the tricks of the trade from him.. but, even with 2 YEARS of occasional training, I would no be ARROGANT enough to call myself a PIANO TUNER… even though I can, and do, tune pianos when I am appearing some place and they have a real piano I can use rather than a keyboard.