Evan's Piano Tuning Service

Along with tuning and repairing pianos, I provide in-home and community concerts. The music is mostly classical repertoire, but there is more than 300 years of pieces to choose from. I have played somewhere around 8000 pages of classical piano music and often take requests with advanced noticed.

I just finished tuning a piano that hadn't been tuned in 25 years. I was surprised it only needed a first quick tuning and then the regular tuning. There were some other things to address, but usually they need more than 1 quick tuning if it's been more than 20 years. She asked me to play something and I performed a simple piece by a French composer. They were very good people.

Yesterday, had a piano that was 67 years from tuning. Amazingly, it was only a half step flat. It took 2 prep tunings, then regular one. It's a myth that a piano has to be tuned flat because it's low. If there was actual structural reasons, which isn't common, then that's one exception. It is generally fine to pull the piano to it's regular pitch to start with, even if it's a half step flat. There are some rare exceptions where it was built low, maybe at a half step to begin with if it's super super old (1800s).

Just finished tuning a piano for a concert for Emma Nisson. She's a young artist who sings Christian songs. She has a YouTube channel. She'll be performing in Utah tomorrow.