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On the subject of tuning your own piano.... how many piano tuners have in tune pianos at home. Speaking for myself, i dont think mine's been tuned in almost 2 years! After getting home from a long days tuning, the last thing i want to do is tune my piano. Maybe I should get someone in and say "...

I have always found the Kawai's to be very well set up, and very responsive. However I feel the bass on the Yamaha is a bit better than the Kawai. I also find that Kawais take longer to settle down tuning-wise than Yamahas. Not sure if this helps, but I thought as I haven't posted on here in ages I'...

I dont know if it being only 10 years old makes much difference. I once went to a school to tune a piano in a practice room. The piano was of chinese origins and hadnt been tuned for 4 years - it was over a note and a half flat, but then in the case of this piano its tuning was the least of its prob...

Second Hand U3s are almost always an excellent buy IMHO. I would still suggest getting a tuner to check the piano out. I often see good pianists playing a piano and saying it's a lovely instrument, but overlooking some obvious structural faults. (bring on the old "i can drive a car but cant fix...

I have 2 customers who bought pianos off of ebay - one paid 1 pound and got a completely rebuilt 1920's upright in immaculate condition which is a pleasure to tune from someone whos ran had died and had to urgently shift the piano... another bought an upright with a "good name" for 300 pou...

Having done the Randy Potter piano course I can recomend it, although i would have struggled if i didnt have the opportunity to gain assistance from 5 or 6 local top tuners, As any tuner will tell you - 90% of the job is learnt in peoples houses. The course didnt tell me how to bodge a lindner piano...

I have once tuned a pinkham grand piano and was very unimpressed - for the money that was spent on it they could have bought a Yamaha of a similar size and a much higher spec. I only tuned it once - it wasnt a nice piano and i would not tune it again! That said i have no experience of the uprights!