FARGO — Following his graduation from Minnesota's Hawley High School in 2021, Alex Moe was looking for something to do. After giving it some thought, he decided he'd try his hand at piano tuning, ...

Mr Barkley learnt the trade from his father, a pianola specialist, in his early teens. “He always had that stuff around in his workshop,” Mr Barkley said. “I didn't really plan to be a piano tuner but ...

Steinway Concert Technician Ismael Cunha is the piano tuner at the Fourteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition at the Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth, Texas. Mr. Cunha is shown here ...

These days, it's easier for Ed Blanton to communicate with the piano than the pianist. At 91, Blanton's ears don't do well with soft voices, but after 60 years of piano tuning, he hears the strings ...

Terry Harper can barely play a chord, but he has made thousands of songs sound perfect. One of the world's great pianists describes Mr Harper as the doctor who heals his throat so he can sing. For 40 ...

[JanHerman] knows that tuning musical instruments is all about precision and that precision is measured in a logarithmic unit called a cent. A cheap tuner unit might be accurate to 1.5 cents which ...

Playing string swapsies on instruments, to find out how it sounds. Ever wondered what would happen if you replaced an essential part of a perfectly fine instrument with something from another? Just ...

"Ismail Merchant is holding for you on Line 2." thought it must be a practical joke. It wasn't. One half of Merchant Ivory Productions was calling, inspired by the review of a book Fletcher ...

Striking a piano key, to hit a perfect 'A' is music to Liam Curran's ears. The pianist, from Thunder Bay, Ont., is one of the youngest piano tuners in the city, if not the country. Curran, in his ...