Product Description: This book is the outgrowth of a course of instruction, used successfully with pupils from various parts of the United States and Canada, conducted partly by correspondence; partly at the school directed by the author. Although it has been necessary to revise the course somewhat for publication in the present form, no essential matter has been omitted and much has been added...read more

A veteran piano tuner presents a non-technical, literary view of the quixotic tuning system used on keyboard instruments for hundreds of years. Winner of the Western States Book Award for creative non-fiction in 1986, newly updated with illustrations, index, bibliography.

Product Description: The second edition of this world famous book puts into clear pictures and language how anyone handy with tools can repair, regulate, maintain, and even completely rebuild a piano.

Product Description: If you are the owner of one of the thousands of neglected, but still servicable, family pianos, then this new DIY piano maintenance book may prove of interest. All aspects of piano servicing and maintenance are covered in relatively simple terms as are the methods of tuning a piano...read more

Demonstrates the techniques used to tune a piano, shows special piano tools and repair procedures, and explains why pianos go out of tune

Written in nontechnical language, this practical and theoretical guide to the tuning and repair of all keyboard stringed instruments gives precise explanations of electronic tuning and string tension adjustment

Product Description: How piano operates and is constructed. How to tune piano, adjust action, make simple repairs very clearly explained; no special skill needed. 19 illustrations.