Warmest winter wishes to all my piano tuning clients here in Nanaimo, and throughout Vancouver Island!  We are barreling towards the holiday season, and it is evident by looking at my piano tuning schedule which is almost completely full for December.  As always, I'm pleased Read more [...]

This fall has been a busy time for piano servicing on Vancouver Island.  I tune and repair pianos for private clients from Shawingan Lake to Parksville, Duncan to Qualicum Beach, and of course here in my home town of Nanaimo.  But what keeps me even busier is all the piano Read more [...]

August 2016:Summer is a beautiful time to travel all over Vancouver Island.  As a piano technician, I am lucky to visit some of the most wonderful areas of the island while servicing and repairing pianos.  Summer sees me tuning pianos from Mill Bay to Shawinigan Lake, Read more [...]

June & July 2016:  The world of piano technicians is a small one.  One of the wonderful things about being a piano technician is that over the years I have been able to build relationships with colleagues from near and far.  These friendships include some of the best Read more [...]

May 2016;  It's time for my semi-annual trip to the north, leaving the spring beauty of Vancouver Island to fly to Yellowknife in Northwest Territories of Canada.  What does a piano technician do in Yellowknife, you may ask?  Well, you'd be suprised how many pianos there Read more [...]

February 2016: It's the beginning of spring all up and down Vancouver Island - from Qualicum Beach to Nanaimo to Duncan, and everywhere in between.The days are getting longer, the flowers are coming up, and spring is in the air.  So many piano clients are preparing for Read more [...]

I would like to wish the best of the season to all my piano clients.  I have been tuning and repairing pianos on Vancouver Island for over 25 years, and I deeply value all the wonderful clients I've come to know and the relationships I've built up over the years. I hope Read more [...]

It's been a busy fall season for Piano Forte Service.  September holds the regular "back to school" rush of tuning and servicing pianos all over central Vancouver Island for music schools, piano studios, fall concert series and piano students.  Then each year I complete Read more [...]

Once again, it's that time of year for Piano Forte Service. On October 26th I'll be off to Yellowknife, North West Territories, to do 2 weeks of intensive piano work in the north.  I have been going to Yellowknife for 15 years now, servicing and repairing pianos there for Read more [...]

Happy Birthday, Piano Forte Tuning Service!Wow - time flies!  It was exactly 25 years ago that I started my business, Piano Forte Service, here in Nanaimo on central Vancouver Island.  A few years before that I had finished a 3-1/2 year piano apprenticeship under a Master Read more [...]