Andre Laplante will be performing two concerts at the Hornby Island Summer Music Festival in August 2014.  He is known as one of the world's great pianists, and we are so lucky to have him coming to British Columbia and especially this beautiful gulf island off the coast Read more [...]

It's coming soon!  The Hornby Island Summer Music Festival is fast approaching, and I am honoured to be the regular piano technician for this wonderful arts event.  Every year I take a week off from my local piano work in the Nanaimo and central Vancouver Island area to Read more [...]

Although I have been servicing, repairing, and tuning pianos for over thirty years, I believe being a piano technician is a process of life-long learning.  As part of my commitment to provide highest quality piano work to all my clients on Vancouver Island, I regularly Read more [...]

One of the wonderful things about being a piano technician is that I get to tune and service pianos in so many different places and contexts.  I enjoy tuning pianos for private clients all over central Vancouver Island - from Mill Bay, through Duncan, Shawinigan Lake, Nanaimo, Read more [...]

Spring is a beautiful time to be tuning pianos on Vancouver Island.  As I travel around the Nanaimo area I constantly enjoy the changing vistas of ocean and far-off coastal mountains.  I tune pianos for clients in Parksville and Qualicum Beach, and I'm often greeted at Read more [...]

The Hamburg Steinway is considered by many artists to be the finest piano built.  Over the years, I have twice had the opportunity to tour the plant.  Here is a short art film on the making of a Steinway model B grand piano.  Enjoy.       Read more [...]

The Hornby Island Music Festival is one of the many wonderful arts organizations that I am honoured to work for.  I have tuned and serviced pianos for the Hornby Festival summer program for many years now, always enjoying the variety of wonderful artists that are selected Read more [...]

For almost 25 years Jurgen Goering has been tuning and servicing pianos on Vancouver Island. All tunings are done exclusively by ear, using only a tuning fork for one reference note. I started my training in Germany in 1981, apprenticing for three and a half years to Read more [...]