How to tune a piano yourself: It's surprisingly easy with this piano tuning software.

[Mathewised]

To be honest I think its easier to get a bloke in to do all this faffing for me :D

[192asso]

Tuning a piano is one of the difficult things to learn. The chords mustn't be tuned at the same way...

[DirksProjects]

@192asso That's right. The piano tuner software calculates the optimal tuning for each chord. This way the piano gets tuned exactly right.

[larryshair]

This was an extremely helpful video. I did have a question if you don't mind. It was difficult to see how you dampered the 1st and 3rd strings with the red velvet cloth. Can you explain a little bit of how you did this? Great video, thanks! I now have the courage to tune my mother's piano (40 year old piano never tuned).

[DirksProjects]

@larryshair - Check the website dirksprojects.nl. Click on the piano tuner and then on the link "How to tune a piano".

[ScreamerzProductions]

Sup Dirk.

[lukejo]

Thanks for this video, really helps! Im planning on buying the software soon. In your opinion, with all the tools in this video, could you do paid work as a piano tuner? As a student studying music, this seems like a geniune business opportunity?

[allen764]

Is the software you're using comparable to the Accu-tuner 2 or 3?

[MegaBirn]

Fantastisch, bedankt!!!

[cechema]

thanks for upload :D

[datacadman]

Fantastic.



[tkarmakid]

what song did you play at the end of the video? that sounds nice.

[Thuuralin]

@tkarmakid K331 3rd movement by Mozart

[cris001kay]

Sorry, I have no problem with tuners using technology to do a tuning. I find software very useful especially in pitch-raises, but I would never tune unisons using the software. Even a slight beat on a unison sounds terrible and your ear is more more sensitive than any piece of software.

[BIackMoonCGI]

@cris001kay - I agree entirely. I normally tune the middle string, un-mute the left, tune that then un-mute the right and tune that. Although, the A3 he did here didn't sound bad at all.

[JordanRMartin]

Thanks for this. It seems simple enough. Just tedious!

[an17191]

great video

[AmemeJones]

In english it's also called a tuning lever.

[VortexBuffer]

@belartful Your piano is untuneable if a good tuner tunes it and the piano goes out of tune already after a very short time. This is usually caused by gradual damage to the pinblock, either by time or by reckless tuning, which causes the tuning pins to be loose. Untuneable pianos can only be fixed by replacing the entire pinblock, which is a very expensive procedure. Better to buy a new piano!

[belartful]

How might one know if their piano is "un-tuneable? I've got a 1950 Chickering. Do they go by the date? Or is it simply how the piano is built?

[jlspma]

I have never done this before. how much time do you think it would take for me to tune an early 1900s steinbeck, that hasn't played for 30 years. I haven't seen the strings yet, but it need incredible tuning. Also the keys don't seem to be played and the keys, once pressed, don't come back up again. Is there sth I can do about it, alone??

[samanrud]

Thanks a lot for spending your time to record this valuable tuning method. this help me to save money an learn how to tune my 6 years old daughters piano. Wish you best!!

[LaserXV2]

Really good work, my respect!!!

I also use this tuner since the beginning and I'm very happy with it!!

Thanks at Dirk...:)