This article was published 30/07/2018 (2615 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current. On a warm day when I was out for a walk in my Fort Garry neighborhood, I heard the plinking sounds ...

Steinway Concert Technician Ismael Cunha is the piano tuner at the Fourteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition at the Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth, Texas. Mr. Cunha is shown here ...

Memo to young people having trouble finding a job: Piano tuning. People who love to play will always find a way to pay for what Matt Guggenheim, who tunes the pianos for the Portland Symphony ...

Dennis Gibbons has spent the past 39 years helping to make many pianos sound a little better throughout the western suburbs. The longtime Western Springs resident earned a bachelor’s degree in music ...

Most likely you didn’t know Roland J. Schlagel. And, I have to admit, I knew him only barely. I never visited his house, never went out to dinner with him and his wife, never met his five children or ...

A note about piano tuners: They often are not in accord. Tuners can’t agree whether their ranks resonate with talent or reek of the tone-deaf. A professional guild sets the bar for training, but most ...

ROCKWELL — You see it in the way Roy West cocks his head and points his left ear toward the piano. It’s there as the toothpick rolls back and forth in his mouth. His strong right hand gives it away, ...

One Waco piano tuner is taking a different approach to today’s widespread use of electronics in the tuning process. While the trend is to correct the instruments with electronic devices, he works his ...