Description: Acoustic Keyboard Services | The Well Maintained Piano | A wholistic approach to realise the potential of your piano
CHURCHILL BLOG
The artisan skill required to maintain the piano is now regarded as critically endangered due to the growing scarcity of elite tuner/technicians. This research teaching program seeks to find a solution to preserve these endangered technical skills.
James Boyk states in his article, The Endangered Piano Technician (Scientific American, December 1995) “As a pianist, I have a recurring nightmare that the piano will disappear as a concert instrument, not because people won’t want to hear it or play it, nor because fine pianos won’t be built, but because good concert piano technicians are vanishing.”