Piano Tuning Equipment

Video Transcript

"On behalf of expertvillage.com, I'm Tom Flowers, owner of Well Tempered Piano Tuning, here to clean up the tuning on your own piano. You could leave the piano largely intact but you will need to remove the music desk to get some tune pins so we are going to do that now. There are a total of over 220 tuning pins to deal with if you are doing a whole tuning but more than likely you will simply be cleaning up notes that have gone sour between your tune up of visiting. Attempting a full tuning is something I would not recommend. It is a fairly complex progress. However if you have a decent ear and a few tools, you can clean up notes that some of the strings that will stop. For instance this piano has been tuned but some of the strings are not quite there, so we can clean that up. You will basically need what is called a tuning hammer. It looks like a wrench but is actually referred to as a hammer and it simply has a handle and a fitting that fits strictly over pins and that's what you will use to adjust the pins. Pulling towards you will bring the string sharper, pushing away from you will make them go lower. You will need some mutes. These will isolate strings that allow you to hear either one or two strings together rather than all three. It would be impossible to change one with the other two unbridled because you simply would have a huge ____. This way you can listen very carefully. You will need some kind of tuner probably not this sophisticated. A guitar tuner will work or you can simply if the piano is largely in tuned, you can use an octave like this. Those are two a's. These tools are readily available on the net. Probably for a basic hammer and a couple mutes you are talking less than $40. "