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September 2017 – Piano Technician at “Accordion Noir Festival”

As a piano technician, one of my pleasures is getting to know other technicians around the world, both professionally and socially. Many piano technicians have a background in music performance of some kind, and a love for instruments in general (especially all the beautiful Read more [...]

August 2017 – Piano Tuning on Hornby Island and for Music Festival

Once again, it's a great time of the summer - the Hornby Island Music Festival!I am honoured to be the piano technician for this great summer music festival, located off the coast of Vancouver Island on one of the most beautiful and iconic of the Gulf Islands: Hornby Island. Read more [...]

January 2017 – Winter piano work and vacation closure

Hello and Happy New Year to all my piano tuning clients on Vancouver Island. I hope you all have a year filled with health, joy, harmony....and beautiful music!I am busy catching up from an incredibly full fall season, and booking in more piano tunings and repairs for Read more [...]

Happy Holidays 2014 from your Vancouver Island piano technician

Happy Holidays! The month of December is flying by, and it's a busy month for piano technicians. I am always pleased to be repairing, tuning, and servicing pianos, knowing that music is still an important part of celebrations at this time of year. I am tuning pianos Read more [...]

Piano Tuning in Yellowknife, November 2014

Once again, the north calls! As I have been doing for more than a decade now, I will be off to Yellowknife, Northwest Territories to tune, repair, and service pianos. This year, I will be travelling there between October 27th and November 9th. I have many repeat clients Read more [...]

30 Years of Tuning and Repairing Pianos

My, how time flies!It has been 30 years that I passed my German State Examinations to become certified and receive the diploma as a Journeyman Piano Maker.A number of times during the 3 and 1/2 preceding years of my apprenticeship under an old Master Craftsman I thought Read more [...]

Interesting Piano Tuned in Ladysmith BC

My recent call to tune a Heintzman piano in Ladysmith held an interesting surprise. The old piano turned out to be Grand Old Dame from the golden years of Heintzman’s production. Built in Toronto just prior to 1920, this piano was truly one of this prestigious firm’s Read more [...]

Piano Tuning from Mill Bay to Hornby – a busy week

Tuning Pianos across Vancouver Island kept me very busy this week. Piano work took me from Duncan, Cobble Hill, Mill Bay to the south up to Hornby Island, where I prepped the Bechstein grand piano at the Hornby Community Hall for a concert. Side trip through Oceanside - Read more [...]

Nanaimo Piano Tuner makes discovery while tuning in Duncan BC

On a recent piano tuning trip to the Cowichan Valley and Duncan, one of my stops was St John's Anglican Church in downtown Duncan. The instrument I was called to tune was a modern, shiny black upright piano. No surprises there. But my attention was drawn to the alcove in Read more [...]

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