Piano Tuning

Before you touch a tuning pin, J. Cree Fischer asks you to prove you know your way around the keyboard: which notes make a common chord, and how far apart are they?

In the early twentieth century, the piano is a beloved fixture of the home—but Fischer sees too few competent tuners to care for all those instruments. His practical course begins by asking whether you have the musical ear and mechanical ability the work demands, then builds from the keyboard’s notes and intervals toward the craft of tuning. You needn’t be a musician, he assures the beginner; the essentials can be learned. But a piano is a delicate machine under immense string tension. Can you learn to hear when it is truly in tune?

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