For more than a quarter-century, Tim Watts has helped area musicians create beautiful music. Watts is not a music teacher, accompanist or even a soloist. He is a piano tuner who has been working ...

Meet Mike Derrett piano tuner to the stars. On a main road in York, a few feet from heavy traffic and young people trudging off to university, you will find Mike Derrett and his pianos.

When a local piano tuner agreed that he could shadow him on the job for a day, Jackson said he knew he’d found his calling. “I thought it was such a cool, satisfying thing to do,” he said.

When a local piano tuner agreed that he could shadow him on the job for a day, Jackson said he knew he’d found his calling. “I thought it was such a cool, satisfying thing to do,” he said.

Inspired Life An airport piano was filthy and out of tune. He fixed it during a layover. “It was in very rough shape: Dust was everywhere, and there was a gluey substance under the keys that ...

And then just the whole piano tuning community kind of got underneath me. It's like, 'Yeah, we're looking for more young guys.'" Building a Practice.

I recently acquired an old piano, I stripped it back to usable wood I could recycle. This weeks project I make a lamp recycling what was some of the tuner from inside the piano, and yes it took me ...

Steven Muller admitted to being the mystery piano tuner. (Photo: Peter Rosen, KSL-TV) But Mueller knew he could not hurt a piano destined for the landfill, and so patiently taught himself to tune it.

The tuners he knows are, of course, younger than him by 20 years, which places them in their 60s. "There are five piano tuners in the Acadiana area, and they keep busy," he said.

But if anybody's up to the tuning task it's piano tuner David Snyder. "I don't like going to performances because you, unfortunately as a piano tuner, I can hear every doggone thing.

Sweetening sour notes is local piano tuner's bread and butter Alex Moe, owner of Alex's Piano Tuning and Repair, plays his piano on Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023, in north Fargo. Alyssa Goelzer/The Forum ...