Anyone with a decent ear, a tuning fork, and a few hours’ practice can tune a piano, but it takes a lot more than that to make those hundreds of moving parts sing. Alexander Volchonok is expert ...

We’re obligated to bestow that title on [Don Gilmore] for his amazingly simple self-tuning piano. To appreciate [Don]’s build, you need to realize that just because a piano has 88 keys ...

Tuning such an old piano requires lots of precision, care, and time as to not damage any of the components. "One, as a tuning tech, has to be very careful with string breakage," said Craig Perkins ...