The PERKINS SCHOOL OF PIANO TUNING AND TECHNOLOGY, established by ROBERT K. PERKINS in 1962, was a vocational school approved by the Ohio Department of Education and later by many state Vocational ...

Like blacksmithing and letter writing, the profession of piano tuner has been added to the list of dying arts. The average American piano tuner is between 55 and 60 years old. Seattle’s 70-year-old ...

Two great beasts sit gutted in Don Shoffner's piano repair shop. Strings leap in spirals from their wooden bellies, spruce shavings coiling from cracks. A mallet, some screwdrivers and a metal tuner ...

A few years ago Gibson began introducing some clever new technology to a select few guitars which automatically tuned the instrument and kept it there (seen most recently in the gorgeous Firebird X).

This micro-credential from the Department of Music in the College of Arts and Sciences is designed to provide you with the knowledge and skills to maintain, repair and tune pianos. You will be ...