Don't shoot the piano tuner....

A great amount of the weight in a piano, whether upright or grand, comes from the cast-iron frame (as you'll know if you've ever tak...

On Sunday 28th August, I attended the inaugural Micklegate Soap Box Derby, which I believe may become a regular annual fixture in future. Ap...

I attended a workshop a couple of weeks ago in Cambridge on the subject of hammer voicing, which is a way of changing the tone of a piano (i...

I was very keen to write up my trip to the Broadwood Piano Festival in Whitby last Saturday - so here it is. I set out on the 7.40 train f...

Broken Strings Let's suppose you have stepped into a time machine which has transported you back to the year 1875. You are walking ...

I recently got asked about honky-tonk piano tuning. Honky-tonk was a style that was extremely popular, on both sides of the Atlantic, from ...

From time to time I get jobs that involve fixing loose tuning pins on pianos. The pins (which maintain and control tension on the strings) a...