Piano Tuning Course | For do-it-yourself-ers

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In this Piano Tuning Course, you will learn to tune in the upper register and also do a bit of spot tuning. You will learn what to listen for and how to use the piano meter app to make it easier.
Watch video 1 in this series • Learn the Art of Piano...
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Paul Tobey
00:00 Piano Tuning Course
01:15 Use Piano Meter app
01:32 Grab a felt & tune middle string
03:40 Note can stretch and go flat
04:19 Tune string to the left
05:55 Mute left string
06:37 Same for D flat
09:08 Spot tuning
09:52 Listen to vibrations
12:14 Next video "tune lower register"
PIANO TUNING TOOLS | YOU WILL NEED
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Piano Tuning Hammer
Piano Tuning felt strip (mute strip)
Piano Tuning app (one-time purchase - PLUS version $24.99 USD)
Piano tuning screwdriver
Piano tuning felts
RECOMMENDED PIANO TUNING APP
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pianometer.com/
WORK WITH PAUL
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Paul Tobey is a Multi-Award Winning Concert Jazz Pianist/Composer. He released 8 albums, has been featured in documentaries and is listed as a Jazz Master in jazz book editions. Once signed to Arkadia Jazz, Paul toured the world as a recording artist and was featured on stages such as at the Hague Jazz festival, the Yokohoma Jazz Festival, the Montreal Jazz Festival to name but a few. Amongst his awards, he won "Jazz Educator of the Year" by the International Association of Jazz Educators, Pianist of the Year, Recording of the Year, and a Juno Nomination.
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@Jazzmentl 2 жыл бұрын

This is a good little course on spot tuning. If ever you find yourself with a note or two out of tune, and you need it fixed, it's a good skill to have under your belt if you're a pianist. I do highly recommend you watch all the videos in this playlist before you have a go at it though. And like Robert points out in another video, it does take a bit of patience. But if you're like me, and it drives you nuts to play on an out-of-tune piano, then you may develop the patience! - ENJOY 🙂 Paul

@michaelsmith697 Жыл бұрын

Excellent video! I love Piano Meter. It’s fantastic and helpful to see a visual of what we are hearing or can’t hear! I find tuning the upper note unisons difficult so I use the Piano Meter app to listen and tune each string separately and it works! Thanks for reminding us about the setting of the pins to even out the tension. Very important.

@robertdepiano 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Paul.In my piano, the g sound, the strings of which are supported very close to the cast iron frame, is gently tuned out. I will try to improve this sound. If it fails, I will invite you for corrections 😁

@mr.classicalmusic5607 Ай бұрын

I tuned a lot of pianos through the 80's and 90's with a Conn Strobotuner. Using an electronic tuning device is more accurate than tuning by ear. (my opinion)

@Jazzmentl Ай бұрын

I find it very helpful 😃

@maxaudibert5793 10 ай бұрын

What is “spot tuning”? Great video! Thank you.

@Jazzmentl 10 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed 😊

@svengilson 6 ай бұрын

Not listening for partials? I always listen for whatever partial is obvious and tune that beatless. The next note will usually produce the same partial, just up a half, so It's easy to follow the sequence - or maybe you just didn't want to get into that level of unison tuning..? 🙂

@michaelsmith697 Жыл бұрын

Excellent video. Thank you for uploading. I’ve done a few courses in tuning, one unfinished and another short course. I’ve been teaching myself since early 90s. Always had difficulty in setting the unisons. I now use the Piano Meter app which I found excellent! It gives us some room to try and tune as accurately as possible. What I have found is after one tuning of the middle register of my Kawai RX6 7 foot grand, it was flat by 1-5 cents… so I did it again. Flat again. I’m going to redo it and tune to 1 cent sharp and see if it stabilises soo I can get an accurate tuning by working to get the strobometer as still as possible with the needle in Centre position. I only had to raise the pitch generally by about 5 cents, though the piano was lumpy as it’s not been tuned for 2 years… Any advice here regarding how to deal with it going flat?

@Jazzmentl Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your post, to answer your question, if it's only the middle register that's flat, then there might be an issue with the pins not being set properly. You should be able to feel the pin set into its place. This is not an easy thing to do and takes practice and some pianos are easier then others. In fact I just tuned a samick 6ft piano for a concert this past Thursday. They couldn't find a piano tuner in time so I had to do it myself, for my own show. I found it extremely hard to set the pins on this piano. I would set them hit the note hard and immediately it would move down. And it did seem like the middle register was quite hard and the upper register as well. If you are using the pianometer app, then it's not possible for the app to tune flat, as long as the needle is in the centre or a little or a few cents sharp. Let me know if this does not answer your question. Thanks.

@michaelsmith697 11 ай бұрын

I’m working very hard on setting the pins. I think what’s happened, is that when tuning with the piano meter, I need to keep manipulating the hammer until the string is in tune AFTER striking the key! Soo that as the notes dies away, it stays right on the 0, instead of going flat as it decays. I’m going to redo the piano tomorrow and touch it all up as some of the unisons have shifted slightly too

@RAndrewNeal 4 ай бұрын

Ah, I was doing it wrong. Trying to get an old baby grand that wasn't stored well, which we got for free, to hold tune better. The whole thing sounds like a honky tonk piano, but to a lesser extreme. And that's immediately after I tuned it, with every string in perfect unison, except for the couple highest octaves which I lost patience for and got them "pretty close". It doesn't sound _bad_ (it's got a load of chorus), but it doesn't sound _good_ either.

@Jazzmentl 4 ай бұрын

Yikes. That's a tough task to help a piano that wasn't well stored. It seems like you were up to the task though. Good on you. It's okay to take a couple of days to tune. 2 hours here, 2 hours next day. We don't have to do it in one session.

@RAndrewNeal 4 ай бұрын

@@Jazzmentl Thanks, good bit of advice. I'll probably be working on it a lot in the coming weeks. First I need to actually set all the pins like you showed, as not doing so correctly was my biggest mistake. And thank you for making these tutorials!

@michaelsmith697 8 ай бұрын

Great video! I use piano meter to tune my Kawai RX6. It does a good job. I can even tune the upper treble - often by one string at a time and I get excellent results! One issue I’ve found is, as I go through the piano , some strings will change… even unifions will go flat exactly the same. Soo I have to retune the tricked back to A440. What’s your method of dealing with this? Thanks!!!

@McguirefinancialCa 8 ай бұрын

No matter what, you'll always have to spot-tune. I typically do a full tuning 4 times a year, and I spot tune weekly or even a couple of times per week. I'm always recording so it has to be in tune or really close.