Electric pianos are popular and can be cheap.

The original Fender Rhodes pianos and Wurlitzer electric pianos are still used by professional musicians because of their unique sound. They are difficult to repair and parts are hard to come by.

Other electric keyboards use sampled sounds of other real or electric instruments to recreate their sounds.

In general they offer advantages of low price and they don’t need to be tuned either.

They don’t have the rich tonal qualities of a real piano and your ear may get “tired” of their sounds. This is what keeps the electronic keyboard market alive – you’re always looking for new sounds.

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Is it possible to start your own piano tuning service? How much should a person charge?

You can make a living…But you’ll have to find a good spot (with any occupation). You wouldn’t want to move to where there are less pianos.

Most people charge $90 or more. But this may have gone up (it’s been a year or two since I had mine tune, I don’t play my upright for a few reasons).
One woman last time, completely fixed my piano. The keys are broken (Reason 1 I don’t play it) and she fixed the two (A and Ab). She spent over 3 hours at my piano…charged me $100!! What a deal.

The piano sounded good, until the keys screwed up once again (its an unfixable problem).

But find a place, such as New York City, Boston, LA, and places that have campuses, and other studios and such around. Get your name out there, and you’ve got a business.

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Hey Guys! SORRY there has been no videos in a while! I have been very busy with work, havent had much time for anything.

The piano in this video is a Mason & Hamlin Grand. Im not sure the exact age of it, but is is at least older then me .

When I got the piano back it was very out of tune and I wanted to get it into tune so I could play it. I called one of our local tuners to come and tune it. He is the best piano tuner and one of the best piano players Ive heard in a while also. And not that you would want to hear this, but I also got a small bit of me playing at the end

Enjoy!

Duration : 0:9:14

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We got 1880 grand piano, we removed all strings and after 3 months we put them back. From then i tuned my piano 0n 430 Hz 4 times, and after week it needs to be tuned again….Is it normal?

Contrary to the person who posted above, old pianos do not deteriorate with age if they are kept in good condition.

You don’t specify whether you used the old strings again or new strings. In either case the piano needs time to settle in. It has thousands of moving parts and being largely wood, it takes time for them to adjust.

The other thing that could be wrong is that your tuning pegs are loose. If they’re only a little loose, some violin peg dope might help, or tapping them in lightly might help too. Please don’t do anything without having a professional tuner look at it.

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Techniques for tuning your piano and other instruments; learn this and more in this free online musical instrument video series about piano tuning, including tips and techniques, taught by an expert.

Expert: Tom Flowers
Bio: Tom Flowers, owner of “Well Tempered piano tuning,” has been tuning pianos for 10 years. He taught piano for 18 years & has been playing since he was a child.
Filmmaker: Chuck Tyler

Duration : 0:2:48

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Piano tuning equipment you’ll need and how to use it; learn this and more in this free online musical instrument video series about piano tuning, including tips and techniques, taught by an expert.

Expert: Tom Flowers
Bio: Tom Flowers, owner of “Well Tempered piano tuning,” has been tuning pianos for 10 years. He taught piano for 18 years & has been playing since he was a child.
Filmmaker: Chuck Tyler

Duration : 0:2:21

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