Learn the Art of Piano Tuning 🎹 Tutorial for Do-It-Yourself-ers
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- Опубліковано 30 чер 2024
- In this piano tuning tutorial, you will learn the Art of Piano Tuning. This video series is perfect for a do-it-yourselfer. You will learn which piano tuning tools you will need & my piano tuning technique. Plus I recommend the most amazing piano tuning app that makes it so much easier!
BEFORE you attempt to tune your piano, it is highly recommended that you watch all the videos in this series.
Enjoy!
Paul Tobey
00:00 Learn the Art of Piano Tuning
00:58 Piano tuning hammer you will need
01:41 Get this PRO APP!
02:39 Start with middle C
04:02 It takes a bit of patience
04:37 You only want to hear a middle string
05:09 Grab your phone app
05:41 Find the middle pin
06:18 How to set the pin
07:00 Wack (quick release) it to even out the tension
08:32 Find middle pin
08:43 Set the pin
09:57 Be as close to zero as you can
10:40 BEFORE you attempt to tune your piano...
10:45 Watch all videos in this series!
PIANO TUNING TOOLS | YOU WILL NEED
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Piano Tuning Hammer
Piano Tuning felt strip (mute strip)
Piano Tuning app (one-time purchase - PLUS version $24.99 USD)
Piano tuning screwdriver
Piano tuning felts
RECOMMENDED PIANO TUNING APP
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pianometer.com/
WORK WITH PAUL
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Paul Tobey is a Multi-Award Winning Concert Jazz Pianist/Composer. He released 8 albums, has been featured in documentaries and is listed as a Jazz Master in jazz book editions. Once signed to Arkadia Jazz, Paul toured the world as a recording artist and was featured on stages such as at the Hague Jazz festival, the Yokohoma Jazz Festival, the Montreal Jazz Festival to name but a few. Amongst his awards, he won "Jazz Educator of the Year" by the International Association of Jazz Educators, Pianist of the Year, Recording of the Year, and a Juno Nomination.
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BEFORE you attempt to tune your piano, it is highly recommended that you watch all the videos in this series.
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Hey JazzMentlists!!! Thanks for being patient with me during my big move! I had to let my piano settle for a couple of days and it was ready for tuning. So I figured, why not ...make a video tutorial about piano tuning. My hope is that a few of you can do this at home and tune your own grand or upright. Anyway, I'll get back to more traditional "how to play jazz" technique videos next week. For now, my new studio is not ready, so my piano has a temporary home for now...in the middle of our dining room. It'll have to do while the studio gets renovated. Thanks for hanging in there with me while we get our lives back in order and get settled in our new home. - Paul
Finally! Someone got to the point... THANK YOU!
Ahhh..good to know. You must have searched for a bit. Glad it was helpful Chris
Thank you so much! I'm Brazilian and I have been looking for this for so long.
Recently I bought a very simple tuning set and it's being very useful, although I didn't know how to use it properly. Now, I know it because of your wounderful explanation.
I think all the pianists should, at least, try to understand better about their instrument, including the tuning, mainly. After all, we spend so many hours on it and, the more you find out about it, the more it become facinating.
Thank you very very much!
I'm happy I could be of service! Glad you enjoyed 😊❤️
Very good video! I particularly like the method Re setting the pin and the hammer method. Wacking that note to equalise the tension and then playing it to see if it’s moved is very helpful. Thank you. I’ve not tuned for a while and forgot these bits and pieces..
Glad you found this helpful 🙂
Thank you so much! I got a brand new upright piano, and with your video I did a preliminary tuning myself, so helpful!
Congratulations on your new purchase! Take good care of it, and enjoy! I'm glad I could be of assistance 😊
I can't thank you enough for posting this!!
Glad I could help 🙂
I Never tuned before a horizontal piano... never grandpianos!.. I just tuned upright piano since now!! I must take lesson about this...
Very good explanation.
Thanks 👍. Glad you enjoyed.
The piano meter app is awesome!!
Yes, I love it. Used it this morning in fact!
Thanks for the video!! I will start tuning my piano now :) Just to be clear: I believe that you are refering to the PLUS version of Piano Meter. The PRO version is 360 USD (in Denmark). Just to clarify for viewers and to avoid misunderstandings. Again, THANKS for a wonderful video AND the time you've put into it - a huge help :)
Thanks for correcting me and helping out your fellow musicians. Circle back and let us know how you made out with setting the pins.
Thanks Chuck!
Who is Chuck? 😆
@@Jazzmentl You're the spitting image of Chuck McGill, from Better Call Saul ! 😛
@@axiomic 😆
good
Thanks Saxena Music. Welcome to JazzMentl.
A suggestion. For a well maintained piano, try tuning left to right across the whole piano just using a single felt wedge mute. Unisons are tuned left string first to the ETD, then by ear middle to left, then right to both middle and left.
Advantages, no stuffing around with the mute strip. Moving the tuning hammer is a consistent zig-zag front to back then to the right front repeat pattern across the whole piano so quicker and less error prone.
Thanks for adding this John! I'm grateful you took the time to add this!
@@Jazzmentl No problem. The only reason to start in the middle with a mute strip was for aural tuners to first set the temperament, and them work out in both directions from that. As the ETD will set the temperament for you as you sample strings across the whole piano to establish the tuning curve (or you just pull up the saved tuning curve) you can just start at note 1 and work you way across to 88.
And don't be concerned if you have to tune the top octave unisons one string at a time to the ETD. MANY an older professional tuner will do it as their hearing in the high register isn't what it used to be. With the short sustain they'll sound just fine.
@@johnwoodrow8769 right on! Good to know! Thanks 🙏
Even with an "app" you're better off tuning 5ths. EG: C up to G, down and octave, 5th up to D, down an octave, 5th D up to A, A up to E, down an octave, E up to B, etc. etc. (once you get to A to E you have 3rds as an additional reference). 3rds and 6ths are great tuning references. For uprights use a "Papps" mute. much faster than rubber wedges. use the mute strip for the "scale" then tune those unisons BEFORE you continue. Why? because you need the volume of the three strings to reference to octaves up and down. also check 3rds, 4ths, 5ths and 6ths when tuning octaves. (I've been tuning pianos for money for 40 years). if you whack the key to even the tension and the pitch drops, the piano is crap. that should not happen!!! hehe.
Chuck, i know nothing , just starting , sorry if i ask a dumb question , So starting very first key left - C - and continuing to G and where A begins again is this A1 ? and after 7 keys and A begins again is this A2 and so forth ?
Is the tuning kit one you recommend? Got a link for it possibly?
I happen to live in the same town as Charles Faulk, but a Faulk tuning hammer is about the same as a car payment, and much more professional level than I need.
I'm working on getting you a link. My son bought me this set for father's day. I asked him to get me a link for you. He's 26 and recently engaged. So, his head is in his life - all to say, it usually takes him several days to get back to his dad 😉. I'll circle back when I get a link. 🙂
Hi Paul, what piano tuning kit are you using in this video. Do you recommend it?
Hey Mark, thanks for stopping by, I'm honored. I think you can find a better hammer although this one seems to work fine for my needs, definitely better than the last one I used. There's a little play in the head and pin, which is normal for a hammer. It's not supposed to be super tight which allows you to rock and create impact to set the pin properly. This is a good brand in US bucks. www.howardpianoindustries.com/levitan-classic-tuning-lever/ A bit pricey, but you get what you pay for. My son bought me the kit I'm using from Amazon as a gift, this one www.amazon.ca/dp/B08B1GYLFF. And like I said, it works fine for me, I just tuned the entire board the day before yesterday, which I do like every 2 months. Then spot tune in between. As you know, recordings made with an out-of-tune piano will always suck no matter how well you mic them. I think if you're only tuning your own piano and once in a while on a gig, which I've had to do many times before, even at concert venues, this kit is sufficient. Pro tuners might have an issue with it, but hey... I'm a player, not a tuner.
@@Jazzmentl
Hey Paul, I love your videos, your playing sounds great and so does your piano and recorded sound.
I just need to be able to touch up some unisons in the area B-C-C#-D an octave above mid c. That's the 1st place that goes out on my piano 1st whereas the piano is very stable otherwise. I likely would never TUNE the whole beast. So, I just need to check out a decent hammer and the mute tools. Thanks for replying!
So, what's the difference between doing it this way with a tuner app, vs hiring a professional piano tuner that uses those complicated methods, and talk about this thing called "temperament" where they first tune the central octave, then listen for harmonics between notes, etc... I don't even understand what they are doing. Any difference at all?
The difference is the professional is giving the piano a good and stable tuning. I'm all for cutting expenses when possible, but the $150 a tuning costs once a year is worth it. It's not easy. Spare yourself (and your piano technician) the anguish. -Drew
DIY is fine for adjustments and maintenance. Get a pro if a tuning hasn’t been done in a long while. It will likely have its overall pitch lower than standard. They will stretch tune the whole board.. which is TEDIOUS
Pianos are only gonna sound good if all the intervals are good. What the app does is make an assumption or a calculation off of the inharmonicity(at least the good ones). If you follow an app it will will give you results with errors in the temperament or in the octaves. That's because the app doesn't listen to intervals, it listens to pre calculated frequencies.
From a mechanical viewpoint, what exactly does whacking the key do? Thanks for info!
It makes the pressure on the string even between the bridge it sits on and the resonant part. If the pressure is not equal the string will slowly travel out of tune when you play.
it vibrates the string hard enough so that an equilibrium in tension is reached across the whole string (from the pin to the bridge and from the bridge to the rest of the string) because when you turn the pin to tighten or loosen the string the tension first changes from the pin to the bridge. Like he said... if you never intentionally equalize the tension across the whole string, as soon you you start playing it... the string will vibrate enough to equalize itself resulting in a slide in pitch large enough to detune the whole piano within a couple of days or weeks.
@@chrisdavis2161this add is much appreciated
There are two parts to the string - the "non-speaking" part that is where the tuning peg connects to the sharp point (this part plays no sound, hence "non-speaking") and the "speaking" part of the string that the hammer hits.
When you tension or detension the tuning peg, you are increasing tension in the "non-speaking" part of the string. Because there's a lot of pressure where the point is that separates the speaking and non-speaking parts of the strings, this can block some of that tension in the non-speaking part of the string from reaching the speaking part of the string. As you play the piano this discrepancy in tension will equalize (generally meaning your "speaking" string will go lower in pitch over time). By striking the string a few times, you help the non-speaking and speaking parts of the strings equalize their tensions and create a more sustainable tuning for that string for later play.
I don't know... I'm not sure if I would have enough patience. I would probably spoil it and call the tuner anyway 😁
Ha ha. I understand. It does take a bit of patience :-)
Did you ever get that link for the tuning kit
My son and wife purchased the kit off of Amazon for me as a gift. I finally tracked down the link, but last I looked the skew # / product was no longer for sale. Check Amazon for kits.
Jazz drummer NYC and piano player recently in Emmet Cohen Harlem apt killing playing - I play a C3 in my picked up a new GBk1 silent decent action but need to tune it a lot as it’s new - thanks again - keep swinging you sound great
Yes. I see Emmet's stream time to time. He's a great player and he has curated a great channel! Love all the guests as well. I just saw something today. Good luck with your new GBK1@@cm-uy6ec
Yes, this is the kit I have. Ecloud Shop Piano Tuning Kit 16pcs Tuning Tool Set Professional Tuning Wrench Hammer Mute Tweezers Fork Screwdriver Belt Clip for Beginners and Professionals a.co/d/90zfIxA