How to Tune a Piano?

How to Tune a Piano? - as part of the expert series by GeoBeats.

First of all, I would not recommend that you tune your own piano unless you have had some instruction in it, but you might want to tweak it a little bit at some point. They do have electronic machines that help you hear better. But the basics are - this is a tuning fork, and this is something that you put in between the strings. So if I want to tune this, it has three strings, they should all sound alike. Their overtones and all those kind of things, but I cannot get into that, I guess, let me pick another one.

I am just plucking these, like you would a guitar. And you can hear, they are going up, like I would if I were just playing those. So this is the tuning pin. And if you look at it really closely, you will see that one string is wrapped around one tuning pin. So if you want to make a string higher, remember this is for one note, you have to get all those three pins the same, which, you know, really takes an amazing ear. Plus they tend to slip. But..

So for this particular note, there it is, OK! You see I am now just touching those strings. So the first one here, if I just kind of go and trace it with my finger, that is the right, far right, string. The middle one, here is the tuning pin for that. And the other one, here is the tuning pin for that. So each one of those have to be tuned so that they match each other, and that is without using the pedal. This thing you can put in between those strings to help you. And, tightening, making it higher, is to the right. To the left, you loosen it. You have to be really careful, cause they snap, and they are very tiny adjustments.

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[MsPiano80]

That is a tuning hammer, not a tuning fork! Jeez.

[Mrphilharmonic]

Loads of 'alarm bells' going off here! I think she's doing her best to discourage anyone from attempting to tune their piano. It IS a very skillful art, but not exclusive. I do not like this video demo at all. She doesn't really say anything about the art of piano tuning. Nothing useful anyway. It doesn't get my vote!

[RealScottsdaleLiving]

Nice effort, but no useful information. Bleh.

[nrvstorm]

Thank you for that. I enjoyed it very much.

[pianotech88]

Uhhhhhhhh, no comment : )

[kevenlode]

You know to become a pianotuner will take at least 3 years of experience time, even to call yourself a pianotuner. I have been for 1 year now. And I promise if this is an expert Video, then the expert is totally not.... I was better than that even when I first began *0* You cant read yourself into tuning a piano. It takes time face it or not thats the reality. I am far from near to get a perfect concert tuning and I have been allready 1 year. Its all pure tecnical

[kevenlode]

This is horrible, whoever listen to this womman will not be a pianotuner but a piano destructer! She is even touching the string with her hand *0*

[tomitochacha]

Unintended comedy!

[Juliethepianotuner]

Hah! I m one of the few lady piano tuners around, and the woman in this video ought to be downright ashamed of uploading such a shocking performance. What a charlatan! It makes a mockery of such a skillful process and portrays our gender ludicrous. Get it off here at once.

[1exDJ]

a tuning from a sweetness!