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 [...]