Download or read book Tune and Repair Your Own Piano written by Michael Johnson and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P. This book was released on 1978 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A PRACTICAL AND THEORETICAL GUIDE TO THE TUNING OF ALL KEYBOARD STRINGED INSTRUMENTS, AND TO THE RUNNING REPAIR OF THE PIANO.
Download or read book Piano Servicing Tuning and Rebuilding for the Professional the Student and the Hobbyist written by Arthur A. Reblitz and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides all the information needed for restoring and maintaining pianos, both for professionals and amateurs.
Download or read book Tuning Repairing Your Own Piano written by Jim Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrates the techniques used to tune a piano, shows special piano tools and repair procedures, and explains why pianos go out of tune
Download or read book The Piano Tuner written by Daniel Mason and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book A San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, and Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year “A gripping and resonant novel. . . . It immerses the reader in a distant world with startling immediacy and ardor. . . . Riveting.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times In 1886 a shy, middle-aged piano tuner named Edgar Drake receives an unusual commission from the British War Office: to travel to the remote jungles of northeast Burma and there repair a rare piano belonging to an eccentric army surgeon who has proven mysteriously indispensable to the imperial design. From this irresistible beginning, The Piano Tuner launches readers into a world of seductive, vibrantly rendered characters, and enmeshes them in an unbreakable spell of storytelling.
Download or read book Piano Servicing Tuning and Rebuilding written by Arthur A. Reblitz and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-11-04 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over forty years, Arthur A. Reblitz’s Piano Servicing, Tuning, and Rebuilding has been the gold-standard manual for piano technicians and hands-on hobbyists who want to rebuild or maintain pianos. Reblitz demystifies the daunting prospect of working on a piano as he guides readers through every detail of upright and grand piano mechanics and describes servicing and repairs with understandable, easy-to-follow instructions. The third edition of this invaluable handbook includes over 60 new and 300 remastered images of piano anatomy, tools, and techniques; consideration of ivory alternatives and the newest adhesives and lubricants; new material covering the art of tuning by ear and today’s sophisticated electronic tuning devices; new repair and rebuilding techniques; and a brand new glossary of terms. Piano Servicing, Tuning, and Rebuilding provides piano technician and servicing programs, pianists, and amateur players and hobbyists around the world with an essential twenty-first-century guide to achieving peak performance and maximum longevity for their instruments.
Download or read book Piano Tuning and Repair Starting Your Business in the 21st Century written by and published by Michael Stilwell. This book was released on with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Piano Tuning Regulating and Repairing written by Jerry Cree Fischer and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pianos Inside Out written by Mario Igrec and published by . This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pianos Inside Out takes an in-depth look at the history, design, and maintenance of the piano, and provides practical guidance to anyone who wants to learn how to improve action performance, or tune, repair, regulate, voice, or rebuild pianos. Covering a wide range of topics, from introductory to advanced, the book puts between two covers all the advancements and understanding gained by the piano industry over the last 30 years, to provide a unified and coherent view of that much-needed information, from coincident partial tuning and interval inharmonicity, to touchweight analysis, string leveling, and the different types of modern lubricants. Although written for hobbyists, students, and piano technicians, Pianos Inside Out will also help pianists and owners of pianos to better understand their instruments and to communicate more effectively with their technicians. The book is full of clear, concise, step-by-step instructions, and more than 700 illustrations and diagrams.
Download or read book Complete Course in Professional Piano Tuning Repair and Rebuilding written by Floyd A. Stevens and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001-06 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To find out more information about Rowman & Littlefield titles please visit us at www.rowmanlittlefield.com.
Download or read book The Family Piano Doctor written by Don Wicks and published by B T Batsford Limited. This book was released on 1991 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you are the owner of one of the thousands of neglected, but still servicable, family pianos, then this new DIY piano maintenance book may prove of interest. All aspects of piano servicing and maintenance are covered in relatively simple terms as are the methods of tuning a piano. The author of The Family Piano Doctor is a trained pianist and has been a professional piano tuner and repairer for many years.
Download or read book Player Piano written by Arthur A. Reblitz and published by Vestal Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A treatise on how player pianos function, and how to get them back into top playing condition if they don't work. For beginners and experienced technicians alike.
Download or read book Rebuilding the Player Piano written by Larry Givens and published by . This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Instructions On How To Rebuild The Player Piano And Related Instruments.
Download or read book The Piano Book written by Larry Fine and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bible of the piano marketplace is indispensable to buyers and owners of pianos, amateur and professional players alike. Hundreds of thousands of pianos are bought and sold each year, yet most people buy a piano with only the vaguest idea of what to look for as they make this major purchase. The Piano Book evaluates and compares every brand and style of piano sold in the United States. There is information on piano moving and storage, inspecting individual new and used pianos, the special market for Steinways, and sales gimmicks to watch out for. An annual supplement, sold separately, lists current prices for more than 2,500 new piano models.
Download or read book When a Piano Falls in Your Lap A New Owner s Guide to Used Pianos written by Sarah Czarnecki and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-07 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You have a piano -- and it's been ages since the thing's been tuned. Time to fix it. Whether you're guilty of using your heirloom upright as non-musical furniture or you rescued a beat up baby grand from the curb, your tired old piano deserves proper care and maintenance. That means cleaning, repairing, tuning, and regular upkeep from now on. You could hire a professional piano technician to do it all for you... or you could handle these tasks yourself! We'll start with the basics of piano ID and ownership, then move onto DIY guides to boost your piano parenthood confidence. Learn how to: Select the right piano for you and your musical needs. Move a piano and put it in the perfect location. Maintain your instrument, no matter its condition. Identify the most important elements of any piano. Build and use a customized toolkit. Tune and repair your own piano without fear. Free from bone-dry technical language, When a Piano Falls in Your Lap is the ownership guide you'll wish came with every secondhand piano.
Download or read book The Harpsichord Owner s Guide written by Edward L. Kottick and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kottick presents technical information in an accessible, but entertaining, way: the forms and styles of harpsichords, advice on purchasing decisions, maintenance techniques (such as voicing, regulating, and changing strings, tongues, plectra, springs, and dampers), aids in troubleshooting common problems, and detailed instructions on tuning and temperament. As builder of some thirty keyboard instruments, Kottick is well qualified to speak on the subject.
Download or read book Regulation and Repair of Piano and Player Mechanism Together with Tuning As Science and Art written by William Braid White and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ... Chapter II. ON PIANO REPAIRING. One of the most important of the piano tuner's duties is the repairing of old instruments. Even today there are numberless old squares in the homes of people in moderate circumstances, which are still capable of being made fit for many years of service, and whose owners are unwilling or unable to afford the expense of new instruments. The same statement may be made to apply with equal force to uprights and grands. Everywhere the intelligent tuner finds pianos of every kind in a more or less wrecked condition; pianos that are too good to be discarded and equally too good to be sacrificed in a trade for new instruments. Such pianos are fair game for the good repairer, who is often enabled to restore them to something like their pristine vigor and thus earn good fees and much gratitude from the owners. The field for repairing is almost unlimited, and there is no tuner with an independent practice but should regard the repairing branch as most important to his reputation and pocket. Nevertheless, it will be found that a knowledge of the essential principles of repairing is by no means as well developed or as evenly distributed among the tuners as it should be. This lamentable state of affairs arises largely from the fact that the factory offers little encouragement to one who may desire a knowledge of the conditions surrounding the deterioration and decay of old instruments, while the average wareroom is hardly much better off in this respect. Speaking from experience, it can be said that virtually nothing about repairing is to be learned in factories, although the knowledge of practical action finishing, regulating, stringing and tone-regulating, there gained, is of inestimable value. But the restoration of...
Download or read book Modern Piano Tuning and Allied Arts written by William Braid White and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
