Awesome thanks Altan, yeah I tried to keep it focused and on the important parts. Too many talk about the math behind tunings and note relations etc. It just eats time when you have an iPad/iPhone to look at when tuning a piano. Quick and easy tuning! Enjoy that incoming piano. I know u will grab one Altan. 😂🥳🎂🦊
@@davidmcrae4791 I second that, I've just acquired one for free, it was found in an old house someone had bought to renovate. It's perfectly fine, and now I know how to tune it!
Thank you so much for such a clear and simple video. I'm about to surprise my wife when she comes home to a newly tuned piano! You play beautifully, by the way.
What a wonderful gift to your wife! Nothing beats a well tuned piano so she can play along to favourite Spotify tracks! Thanks, appreciate the kind feedback on my playing and music! Salut Dymer!
As a guitarist, I was always taught that you should tune up, not down - so for example if my target pitch is A, I tune up from A flat, never down from A#. Something about slippage in the tuners. That final twist to fine-tune onto the exact pitch should always be upwards. If you go too far, tune back down to below the note and come up to it again. And actually after 30 years of playing I can say that it does indeed make a difference - you're much more likely to slip out of tune, to the flat side if you do it wrong. Not sure if it applies to piano but in theory the concept is the same.
From light to heavy strain…Thats usually what you end up doing because of the way torque / pressure / strain works without even thinking about it. If you go too high yes you tune down and most of the time end up with too much slack. Then its easier to apply pressure little by little upwards (wiggle that hammer) 😂🥳🥁☕️☀️
Might it also be the nut of the guitar that forces upward tuning? I think there is an uneven resistance there in which direction the string is going. I might be wrong though
The tuning up rule for guitars is due to slop in the gears. Tuning down can introduce small gaps between the gears that release over time and cause the guitar tuning to dip slightly after a while. Tuning up keeps the gears in constant strain/contact so there is less chance of introducing slop. Tuning down is less of a problem with better quality machine heads or where there are no gears like on piano pins.
@@Titchtheclown na, there are some piano tuner that tune down and then up. they never go over pitch. takes them forever. I'm factory trained, we tune over pitch then lower. usually a few times per string.
The mechanism for a piano is different for the guitar. For pianos due to the fact that you introduced flex in the pin, you need to unwind that tension by going back down so the top of the tuning pin is in the same relation as the bottom of the pin. If you do not do this, you will wind up with a flat piano literally in a few weeks. Now for the old mason screw stringers you do have to go up like a guitar given the mechanical nature of that mechanism. But you are not likely to find many of those.
I never would have considered tackling the job of tuning a piano before, but having watched the excellent tutorial it seems very manageable. Outstanding lesson!
As a DIYer at heart, I learned to tune and rebuild pianos in my 20's through a comprehensive course and a lot of research. I had a side business rebuilding for about ten years. There is so much more to a good tuning than is provided here. It's great that you expose people to the basic ideas so they don't have to fear their pianos but I hope people will do some more research. One thing I saw that should be avoided is all costs is the touching of the strings. Wear gloves if you want to use your hands or get rubber stick mutes. The oils on your fingers will accelerate the rusting process on the strings.
I’m trying to look into repairing old pianos but most videos/websites lead to basic stuff. Is there anything you can suggest to go deeper into the subject?
@@kukamungamassey7438 The greatest book I've ever come across is Arthur Reblitz' Piano Servicing Tuning & Rebuilding. It covers everything you could ever do to a piano and very clearly with great photos and illustrations. Good luck to you!
@@dougl409 awesome, thank you so much. I was scrolling fb marketplace and saw so many beautiful pianos that were just…free. Some were even willing to deliver. But I found one that caught my attention and it was a George Steck baby grand piano. I know almost nothing about pianos other than they are very expensive so I wanted to get that one, fix it up and finally teach myself to play and possibly fix others to sell/donate since there are just so many. But thank you for your help, I have a lot of research and practice until I get to that point.
@@kukamungamassey7438 The piano is a fascinating instrument. Have fun getting to work on one and good luck learning to play. I taught myself to play at the age of 25 and I play every day and am now 58. I have a 103 year old Bush & Lane upright that looks and sounds almost as good as new. I am currently waiting for six bass strings to come back from the string manufacturer because the copper windings had loosened up a little and were creating an annoying buzz.
@@dougl409 I have enough musical background to teach myself how to play but it seems so difficult and complex but simple at the same time. I started playing trombone at 10 years old and haven’t put it down since. Over the years of middle and high school I’ve learned all of the brass and want to learn piano since it will be a required class in college so hopefully I’ll be able to very soon. Guitar would probably be my next instrument to learn but that one will have to wait a little bit.
Hi Mike, awesome, good to hear you also got a nice clean tuned piano now too! Happy to inspire! It took me years to dare tune my own piano the first time. But it's no biggie. 🌞
Hi Mattias, first I want to state that I really appecriate your 'just try it and go fo it'-mentalilty. I really love it. But there is a problem using this method, and that is that after you finished the tuning process your reference pitch for all keys is Pano Tuner, which measures perfect pitch for all keys. But then you ignore the so called Pythagorean comma. So I want to give you a suggestion: download TuneLab and tune your piano again in the same way you did now. You can use it for free but after every 12 notes it pauses for 2 minutes (if you don't want that, you have to pay for it). TuneLab measuses all harmonics by recording a few notes (C1, C2, C3, C4, C5 et cetera) and based on this data it presents the perfect tuning curve for your piano. Just give it a try and listen to it. After that, compare the different pitches of your keys again with Pano Tuner: you will see that most of the keys are off pitch, but I am sure you will love the sound of your piano even more than you probably do allready! Greetings from the Netherlands, Peter
Hey, I'll checkout the other tuning app sometime. Thanks for sharing Peter. 🎅 As long as it works for me and my music recordings I'm happy. The PanoTuner works just fine. In the video I only tuned a few keys, so it wasn't fully tuned, which was the whole point of my clip...to show how to go about tuning. ;) What's been less fun is that I have the piano against a really cold wall and we've had insane "weather flips" here in Sweden. And humidity goes in every direction so it's been a bit hard on the piano. But after a quick go-through it's allright again. Have a great christmas vacation! 🎉🎨👑🎅
@@MattiasHolmgren Oh yes, the humidity is devastating, tell me :-( And again, if you are happy with your tuning result, just keep it that way! But if you want to compare, give it a try. I have tuned my piano exactly the way you did years ago (different app though, but the idea was the same, keeping all keys to their exact pitch) but TuneLab really made a huge difference. Also, you might be interested in the completely free software Entropy. I am not really into the math, but the software does it for you :-) Just Google for it, you will find it immediately. Wishing you all the best and keep on doing the good things! Peter
is that mean the most important the A key needs to be precise 440 in pano tuner app, but the other keys can be a bit out of green zone for more harmonic of the piano?
@@Youngzn Exactly. In a perfect world all keys would match a perfect pitch. But inside the piano it ain't perfect due to the stiffness of the strings. So you have to compensate for the inharmonicity. That means the bass strings will be tuned (more or less) slightly flat and the high treble (more or less) slightly sharp. This is called stretch. The amount of strech applied to a specific tuning depends on the piano since the inharmonicity differs from a piano to another (the lenght of the strings is an important factor: a spinet piano will have much more inharmonicity than a Fazioli 308).
@@klankenvangerAssuming all my keys are flat, would tightening the strings in (to "perfect pitch") leave me with the first key I tuned flat again, as the increased force on the piano slightly bends it and lowers the tension on the strings? Or is that negligible?
Thank you so so much! Just to mention that, for older pianos, and from what I have searched, the more adequate tuning hammer is the K&M 167 (Thomann), having star-shaped hole for 5.8 mm pegs. Best Regards!
You're very welcome! Yes there are a few different tuning heads. So before any tuning; open the piano and look what the tuning head looks like. ;) Excellent tip! Thanks for writing Alfonso!
I just tuned my first piano thanks to you! Its old and left in unheated rooms, but its a playable piano now. And every handful of keys i tuned, i discovered little musical phrases to expan on at a future date. Again, many thanks 😊
Tack Dag. Ja jag tycker det är viktigt att det inte handlar om att trampa någon på fötterna. Utan bara om hur jag personligen gör för att stämma mina pianon. Och det har fungerat prima. ☀️🥁☕️
@@MattiasHolmgren I just got an old piano as a gift from a friend and I'll bring it to my house tomorrow. Your video gave me the first directions about how to deal with the out of tune strings
Was about to hire my usual piano tuner again, but I was wandering if I could do it myself. This video is the best tutorial I’ve seen for piano tuning! Saved me $225!
Thank you for this excellent, clear and right to the point video, Mr. Holmgren. I have a 50+ year old Hardman upright that hasn’t been tuned in over 10 years I used to have an old-school piano tuner (using 4 different freq. tuning forks) come to my house every couple years, but I think he passed away, and the piano has just sat there, with the exception of an occasional hammering from the little hands of my grandkids.
Same here, used to have those old guys come in and do the tuning. But now I can do it whenever I want and also when those guys start dropping off. Tuning folks are hard to come by these days… and so is the real upright piano. Manu people swapped for an electric Roland / Yamaha or whatever. 😂😁🦊🥁☕️
This is a realy great video, without the pedantic attitude that most piano tunes have! I was just wondering, should it be mentioned to set the Pano Tuner app to Equal Temperament? If you do this with, say, Just Intonation, it can get messy...
Thanks for this straight forward workflow, with my perfect pitch, playing a out of tune piano a music teacher uses to teach, behooves me! How can she not hear that the piano is completely dead.
Yeah the "bar piano" sound was never my thing either. Happy to hear you enjoy my piano tuning video! Thanks for the feedback! Have a wonderful weekend! 🌞
Great in depth tutorial, thank you man! I did stumble across some problems. It was perfectly in tune but 10 minutes later the notes I just tuned turned red in the Piano Tuning app... How could that happen? I do have to add, this piano wasn't tuned for a few years, recently picked up second hand.
This will help immensily. My small non Profit I do work for got a piano as a donation which needs a tune. We can't justify to hire a professional tuner but buying a tuning kit and a bit of patience is something we can do
I'm very happy my piano tuning video has inspired to many tuning sessions throughout the world! It's not a big deal! It just takes a little time. ;) THanks!
Hello Mattias What you call "vibrations" in about 5:06 is called "beats". And as you say, once the beats stop, both strings are equal in tune. Otherwise, nicely done video with good explanations. Cheers from Luxemburg, Laurent
hello, thanks so much for the video ❤. I pay about $150 every year for my grand piano tuning. Last year the piano tuner was sick but still came over and didn't do much for $150. I wasn't happy and have decided to learn how to tune my own piano and glad I found your video 😊
Thank you! I am not a piano player but my daughter does play. I was able to clean and tune a Baldwin upright and it sounds exponentially better. Quite a fun evening project.
Ok, I just received the hammer tuning kit I ordered. And I found one key I knew was bad. OMG! Thank you so much, this was awesome! It helped so much. And your explanations were so simple and clear. After fiddling trying to find a socket that would fit nicely, I was following along and ugh, I lost one of the strings badly and just couldn't trust the short connection on the pin with the 1/4" 12 point socket . I broke down and ordered a hammer and muting kit which arrived today--praying and hoping my wife wouldn't play it and find how far out of tune I made the one key. After having some soup for lunch, I went to work on the one key that I screwed up. Wow! Just wow! The hammer and your instructions it just worked flawlessly. I have a few more to go, but wow what an improvement! Thanks again! Oh, I didn't know piano's had pets. She has so many little dust bunnies. What's the best way to vacuum out all the felt? I was thinking an an air hose, shop vacuum with a large receiver and a 20" box fan with air filters attached? and keep the room closed while doing this?
Greets Tony! Happy to inspire. ;) Yeah piano tuning isn't a big deal as long as you have a proper hammer! Great it worked out well. I need to go back and tune my own piano again since we've had so much fluctuations in both temperaturs and humidity during the swedish winter. Hehe, dust bunnies. ;) I've no idea how to clean that felt. But I would highly recommend a fiber cloth / tovel for cleaning the piano. Yeah keep a vacuum cleaner close! Tell me about it, I'm building a second floor on our house (and a brand new YouTUbe studio) and it gets pretty dusty every day, lol. Gonna take a while until it settles after the finished construction. Thanks for writing and sharing your story!
yes we have an old piano collecting dust instead of memories. I just ordered the kit from ebay. Many thanks. I love your improvisation -light cheerful - maybe u can show how u improvise that - I'd love to play that beautiful and light feeling
Hi TOC, thanks and congrats! Hope you get the kit swiftly to begin tuning that old piano. Oh, thanks glad you enjoyed my little piano improvisation. When we improvise we usually mix (unintentionally and intentional) things we've picked up during the years of digesting music, listening / playing. This was just some soft played (broken chords); Cm -> Bb / D -> Eb -> Ab -> Bb -> Cm. I'll see if I can make some piano playing episodes in a near future. I'm not a concert pianist or anything, but I did compose my share of music for games, film, albums and media since age 17 in 1995. Again, thanks and good luck with that piano. Let me know how the tuning goes! Cheers from rainy sweden. 🌞
@@MattiasHolmgren cool - thanks for your view of improvizing. Yes an improvizing video would be fascinating. Especially the light joyful type. Cool you made music for movies and games etc. Im not looking to be a concert pianist - Im looking to score my own screen plays & tv shows - so - you are the right guy to learn from. Much Joy
Congrats on your piano Paul. Thanks for the feedback. I’m glad to hear my piano tuning video helps people out with the tuning! Let me know how it turns out! Happy friday Paul! 😄🎁👌☕️
Everywhere I researched it said you should not tune it yourself, let a professional do it. But since I don't live in a city, for them just to drive here is already 100 bucks and the tuning itself another 200 I think so I'm glad I found this video. Thanks for the instructions, just ordered a kit. I don't understand why it told me everywhere that I have to get a professional for this. It doesn't seem to hard to figure out? Of course I guess to tune the whole piano I will need multiple hours but it doesn't seem like it is so hard to do just very time consuming or am I missing something?
Happy to hear about your story and incoming piano tuning kit. Of course, a professional tuning specialist will always tell you its imposaible to do yourself. I feel everyone should have the same option to tune it yourself, like any other instrument at home. Don’t bother the nay-sayers. Let them nag into empty space 😂🏆💪🌞 good luck with the tuning!
Thanks Mattias for the encouragements ! Phew I did it today ! What No one was telling me was, It's TOUGH tuning a Piano ? I almost gave up and wanna called a pros instead😰. I didnt have the tuning clamp. Mainly I used the tuning hammer and 2 rubber wedges. I bought mine online, el cheapo, and they also gave 2 extra wedges, 1 got lost inside it and went down i think 😱. The hammer had a square hole and short, so its hard to tune minute differences as the strungs have been locked in that positions for years. I did use PanoTuner, Thanks. Initially I thought I only wanted to retune a few strings, then I found out the the whole piano had been tuned consistently 15% down. So I had to retune each and Every strings 😥😓😰😭 So I had to find Middle A first at 440 Hz. Not easy to get them all within 10% range up or down, bcos its an old upright piano, the strings must have been set for years ! Oh yeah, I had to remove the felt bar that dampen the hammers cos its in the way of tuning. To those trying to do this at home, spare at least 5-6 hours to complete the job properly, maybe more.
Congratulations Broery! Nothing beats a newly tuned piano! Yeah it's easier to access the strings properly without that felt bar in the way. 😄 Thanks for sharing your story! 🌞☕
It is glad perfection in tuning software, dealing with all harmonic listening process, let people to concentrate in hammering technique, tricky but still easier than aural sound analyzing part.
Now that I’ve seen that the only tools you need are the tuning hammer and felt strip, I’m so glad that I didn’t purchase an elaborate tuning kit with a bunch of parts I won’t need. The kit arrives tomorrow, and I’ve already downloaded the tuning program that you are using. I’m going to enjoy this! Thanks again.
Superb Tom, happy to share. Hope u get that old piano back into shape. Yeah all u need is the hammer but the tuning dampening belt helps tremendously. Love to hear all the backstories. ☀️
Yes, of course that's how you do it. But while tuning also make sure you double check with playing a bit. DId you watch part 2 of my piano tuning video? I answer some questions on the tuning: ua-cam.com/video/-MASxd2-VTk/v-deo.html 🌞
I’m going to try to tune my aunt’s upright with this advice, thanks! Two quick questions: -What is the likelihood of snapping a string, especially if it’s an old piano that’s been sitting unloved for years.. is replacing a string straightforward as well? -To my ear there’s something about uprights that always sounds a bit out of tune, even when they are in tune. Do you know what I mean, and is there some reason for that? Something muddled and “off” ... maybe it tends toward more “mid” frequency overall and the sounds don’t get spread out as much as a grand..? Thanks Mattias!
Hi Chris, I've tuned three different pianos, each piano about 2-3 times during a period of 15 years and I've never experienced snapping a piano string. My guess is because the tension adjustment you do when tuning is very very minimal (for the most part). And the strings are very durable. Your question about "a bit out of tune": The piano in this video is only partly tuned when shooting. But yes, I also feel a grand piano tends to sound more "perfect" when tuned compared to an upright.
Thank you for this amazing tutorial, I can finally play Somebody to Love by Queen in tune!! Your a legend! That jam was at the end tho was bloody awful.
I decided to watch your video and give it a try. I don't really even play, just learning but I have an older Baldwin upright and while I paid someone to tune it last year I wasn't looking forward to spending another $200 this year. I have now completed two octaves and they sound lovely, I couldn't be more pleased. Thanks for your video!!
Happy to hear about your successful tuning Karlton! Glad to inspire. It's such a lovely experience to play a welltuned piano. Best instrument in the world!
Great Video. Very well explained. Just a quick question. It looks like you used very few tools compared to those included as a link in the description (from Amazon). Could I buy a cheaper set with just the red temperament strip, wedge mutes and tuning hammer and still do the job well?
Yeah, but make sure you get the correct tuning hammer key/cap, check if its a square cap…or another type. Its vital the hammer fits to tune the strings. 😄
Like most people, you probably have an old piano collecting dust somewhere in the house. In this video I show you how to tune the piano all by yourself. You don't need to be a piano tuner expert or have super expensive tools. Basically it just requires a piano tuning hammer + a felt strap and a little bit of time. In the video we talk about what tools you need, how the different areas of the piano are tuned. I hope you will find my piano tuning video useful, and that it will help you gain confidence to tune your own piano. I don’t pretend to be a piano tuning expert, but this is how I tune the piano. ;) We are not gonna get mathematical, there are plenty of other videos explaining the equally tempered tuning. Instead, we are going to focus on just tuning the piano. Let me know if you have any questions in the video comments! Check my piano tuning article for more indepth info and links: www.morningdewmedia.com/how-to-tune-a-piano-best-practise/
This is an amazing tutorial, i love how you were very straightforward with it and this made me buy a piano tuning kit so I can tune our piano. Nice job!
@@MattiasHolmgren do you find on those apps your using (I downloaded the lite version of what you got and one called KeyTuner) are very fickle on the very low strings? And My chromatic guitar tuner only really picked up the middle of the piano which makes sense. Any suggestions?
Yeah its a bit harder to get those low strings recognized accurately with the tuning apps, I use my ears too and verify (tune) against an octave above.
Hi, the three first chords are from Ólafur Arnalds - Saman. The rest is improvised with this as a starting point. I am going to do a piano improvisation video very soon, hope to inspire!
Thanks so much for this video! I can now tune my piano whenever I can tell it's out of tune (which is very often as I have perfect pitch lol) 😁 and I don't need to call someone to come tune it and wait till they can come and...you know how it goes! This is by far the best and easiest explanation I've found. Thank you!
I watched the second video! The only problem is that the piano tuning hammer seems like it's not the right size! Is there a certain size that I need to get? My piano is an older Wurlitzer upright. Thank you!
Hi Russ, I am playing an improvisation around a few songs mixed together. ;) It's a bit of Olafur Arnalds and a bit of the Snowman, and a bit of my own melodies and arpeggios. ;)
Like I said above, Its improvisations around a mixture of sources. I’m not playing complete piece of a selected song. Three chords from Olafur then it dwells away into something else.
I’m getting back into piano. Someone gave me their old piano because I didn’t have one. I didn’t know you had instruments to tune it. Thanks to you I know how now! Is it possible to tune it without the instruments?
Hi, thanks I was improvising on different chords I picked up through the years, the first three chords are from Olafur Arnalds Saman. The rest improvised.
Hi Alex, oh, the white felt attached to a metal pin… its just the regular dampening felt (pedal dampener). Its original and ive seen it on most pianos Ive played 😃
So when tuning a piano, can one just start from the lowest key then work their way up the piano? Or do you have to tune C first then A second, vise versa…
My typical process is that I begin at the middle A as suggested in the video and begin upwards a bit, then go down some, then up, etc. I dunno if that's the best practise though. I'm not an expert! This is just the DYI method! And it works for me!
Thank you very much for this video. It has given me the confidence to attempt this on my old player piano. Pro tuners tend to charge more for player pianos due to the cramped nature of their innards.
Yeah they give pianos away for free these days. They don't know what they're missing. Every home should have at least one piano IMO. ;) Looking forwad to hear about your tuning experience Ella! 🎹🌞
this video was amazing. im getting a free piano from market place that i'm going to pick up this week that im sure will need some tuning. You're awesome! thank you for making things seem not so intimidating!!!!! with love, rayray
Hi Mattias ! Thank you for this nice video, it helped me to understand the basics and hopefully i am going to try and tune my Piano for the first time.
Thanks Bruno, yes I am very happy my piano tuning video is so appreciated and has helped many people take the steps to set their piano in tune once and for all! ☀️🍿🥳🎻☕️🥁
This is fastest and clearest piano tuning explanation in youtube. I need to buy a piano for tuning now.
Awesome thanks Altan, yeah I tried to keep it focused and on the important parts. Too many talk about the math behind tunings and note relations etc. It just eats time when you have an iPad/iPhone to look at when tuning a piano. Quick and easy tuning! Enjoy that incoming piano. I know u will grab one Altan. 😂🥳🎂🦊
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get one for free! plenty of people have pianos they just want to get rid of!
@@davidmcrae4791 I second that, I've just acquired one for free, it was found in an old house someone had bought to renovate. It's perfectly fine, and now I know how to tune it!
Thank you so much for such a clear and simple video. I'm about to surprise my wife when she comes home to a newly tuned piano! You play beautifully, by the way.
What a wonderful gift to your wife! Nothing beats a well tuned piano so she can play along to favourite Spotify tracks! Thanks, appreciate the kind feedback on my playing and music! Salut Dymer!
As a guitarist, I was always taught that you should tune up, not down - so for example if my target pitch is A, I tune up from A flat, never down from A#. Something about slippage in the tuners. That final twist to fine-tune onto the exact pitch should always be upwards. If you go too far, tune back down to below the note and come up to it again. And actually after 30 years of playing I can say that it does indeed make a difference - you're much more likely to slip out of tune, to the flat side if you do it wrong. Not sure if it applies to piano but in theory the concept is the same.
From light to heavy strain…Thats usually what you end up doing because of the way torque / pressure / strain works without even thinking about it. If you go too high yes you tune down and most of the time end up with too much slack. Then its easier to apply pressure little by little upwards (wiggle that hammer) 😂🥳🥁☕️☀️
Might it also be the nut of the guitar that forces upward tuning? I think there is an uneven resistance there in which direction the string is going. I might be wrong though
The tuning up rule for guitars is due to slop in the gears. Tuning down can introduce small gaps between the gears that release over time and cause the guitar tuning to dip slightly after a while. Tuning up keeps the gears in constant strain/contact so there is less chance of introducing slop. Tuning down is less of a problem with better quality machine heads or where there are no gears like on piano pins.
@@Titchtheclown na, there are some piano tuner that tune down and
then up. they never go over pitch. takes them forever.
I'm factory trained, we tune over pitch then lower. usually a few times per string.
The mechanism for a piano is different for the guitar. For pianos due to the fact that you introduced flex in the pin, you need to unwind that tension by going back down so the top of the tuning pin is in the same relation as the bottom of the pin. If you do not do this, you will wind up with a flat piano literally in a few weeks.
Now for the old mason screw stringers you do have to go up like a guitar given the mechanical nature of that mechanism. But you are not likely to find many of those.
I never would have considered tackling the job of tuning a piano before, but having watched the excellent tutorial it seems very manageable. Outstanding lesson!
Wonderul feedback, thanks! Happy tuning! 🍿
Don’t let them fool you: tuning a piano is impossible and all attempts should be reserved for a starving artist who’ll eventually appear 😂❤
As a DIYer at heart, I learned to tune and rebuild pianos in my 20's through a comprehensive course and a lot of research. I had a side business rebuilding for about ten years. There is so much more to a good tuning than is provided here. It's great that you expose people to the basic ideas so they don't have to fear their pianos but I hope people will do some more research. One thing I saw that should be avoided is all costs is the touching of the strings. Wear gloves if you want to use your hands or get rubber stick mutes. The oils on your fingers will accelerate the rusting process on the strings.
I’m trying to look into repairing old pianos but most videos/websites lead to basic stuff. Is there anything you can suggest to go deeper into the subject?
@@kukamungamassey7438 The greatest book I've ever come across is Arthur Reblitz' Piano Servicing Tuning & Rebuilding. It covers everything you could ever do to a piano and very clearly with great photos and illustrations. Good luck to you!
@@dougl409 awesome, thank you so much. I was scrolling fb marketplace and saw so many beautiful pianos that were just…free. Some were even willing to deliver. But I found one that caught my attention and it was a George Steck baby grand piano. I know almost nothing about pianos other than they are very expensive so I wanted to get that one, fix it up and finally teach myself to play and possibly fix others to sell/donate since there are just so many. But thank you for your help, I have a lot of research and practice until I get to that point.
@@kukamungamassey7438 The piano is a fascinating instrument. Have fun getting to work on one and good luck learning to play. I taught myself to play at the age of 25 and I play every day and am now 58. I have a 103 year old Bush & Lane upright that looks and sounds almost as good as new. I am currently waiting for six bass strings to come back from the string manufacturer because the copper windings had loosened up a little and were creating an annoying buzz.
@@dougl409 I have enough musical background to teach myself how to play but it seems so difficult and complex but simple at the same time. I started playing trombone at 10 years old and haven’t put it down since. Over the years of middle and high school I’ve learned all of the brass and want to learn piano since it will be a required class in college so hopefully I’ll be able to very soon. Guitar would probably be my next instrument to learn but that one will have to wait a little bit.
This still works for a 203 year old upright. Thank you!! Mine required much repair work- but thank you! You made the tuning process simple and easy.
Happy to hear my piano tuning video was helpful and that you got that piano "upright". ;)
Thank you for this video. I have an upright that hadn't been tuned since May 28th, 1975 and I was able to finally get it tuned!
Hi Mike, awesome, good to hear you also got a nice clean tuned piano now too! Happy to inspire! It took me years to dare tune my own piano the first time. But it's no biggie. 🌞
Sounds like there was a tuning log inside the piano? I hope you added a new entry on the log for historical purposes. :D
Hi Mattias, first I want to state that I really appecriate your 'just try it and go fo it'-mentalilty. I really love it. But there is a problem using this method, and that is that after you finished the tuning process your reference pitch for all keys is Pano Tuner, which measures perfect pitch for all keys. But then you ignore the so called Pythagorean comma. So I want to give you a suggestion: download TuneLab and tune your piano again in the same way you did now. You can use it for free but after every 12 notes it pauses for 2 minutes (if you don't want that, you have to pay for it). TuneLab measuses all harmonics by recording a few notes (C1, C2, C3, C4, C5 et cetera) and based on this data it presents the perfect tuning curve for your piano. Just give it a try and listen to it. After that, compare the different pitches of your keys again with Pano Tuner: you will see that most of the keys are off pitch, but I am sure you will love the sound of your piano even more than you probably do allready! Greetings from the Netherlands, Peter
Hey, I'll checkout the other tuning app sometime. Thanks for sharing Peter. 🎅
As long as it works for me and my music recordings I'm happy. The PanoTuner works just fine. In the video I only tuned a few keys, so it wasn't fully tuned, which was the whole point of my clip...to show how to go about tuning. ;)
What's been less fun is that I have the piano against a really cold wall and we've had insane "weather flips" here in Sweden. And humidity goes in every direction so it's been a bit hard on the piano. But after a quick go-through it's allright again.
Have a great christmas vacation! 🎉🎨👑🎅
@@MattiasHolmgren Oh yes, the humidity is devastating, tell me :-(
And again, if you are happy with your tuning result, just keep it that way! But if you want to compare, give it a try. I have tuned my piano exactly the way you did years ago (different app though, but the idea was the same, keeping all keys to their exact pitch) but TuneLab really made a huge difference. Also, you might be interested in the completely free software Entropy. I am not really into the math, but the software does it for you :-) Just Google for it, you will find it immediately.
Wishing you all the best and keep on doing the good things! Peter
is that mean the most important the A key needs to be precise 440 in pano tuner app, but the other keys can be a bit out of green zone for more harmonic of the piano?
@@Youngzn Exactly. In a perfect world all keys would match a perfect pitch. But inside the piano it ain't perfect due to the stiffness of the strings. So you have to compensate for the inharmonicity. That means the bass strings will be tuned (more or less) slightly flat and the high treble (more or less) slightly sharp. This is called stretch. The amount of strech applied to a specific tuning depends on the piano since the inharmonicity differs from a piano to another (the lenght of the strings is an important factor: a spinet piano will have much more inharmonicity than a Fazioli 308).
@@klankenvangerAssuming all my keys are flat, would tightening the strings in (to "perfect pitch") leave me with the first key I tuned flat again, as the increased force on the piano slightly bends it and lowers the tension on the strings? Or is that negligible?
I downloaded this app (Pano Tuner) and had more success looking at the Hz as I tuned each string of an old baby grand. Thank you!
superb, congrats on the tuning!
I’m picking my first piano this weekend the one that plays it self. Thank you for this easy steps video
Oooh awesome! Self playing piano 😋
Thank you Coach for your teaching to us.. may the Lord Bless you forever
You are very welcome Jomar!
My mother has a piano, it hasn't been tuned in over 25 years, I'm gonna try to tune it for her.
Thanks for the Instructions
Awesome, she's gonna be happy about it getting tuned again. ;)
@MattiasHolmgren yeah I'm sure she will, she's been talking about getting it turned for years, but it's always been too expensive to get a tuner in
Very time consuming but absolutely necessary and at the end it sounds great
Absolutely! 😀
That Olafur's Saman at the beginning bought me! Excellent choice!
Thanks 👌☕️🎉😄
Excellent and fun presentation. Your piano sounds magnificent and I've just learned something. Many thanks.
Tthank you so much! Happy tuning!
Thank you for the encouragement and tips. My daughter and i are working an old family Heirloom together. This will make her day
Wonderful, hope you get that heirloom up and running with a newborn glow! Let me know how it goes!
Thank you so so much! Just to mention that, for older pianos, and from what I have searched, the more adequate tuning hammer is the K&M 167 (Thomann), having star-shaped hole for 5.8 mm pegs. Best Regards!
You're very welcome! Yes there are a few different tuning heads. So before any tuning; open the piano and look what the tuning head looks like. ;) Excellent tip! Thanks for writing Alfonso!
Good music at the end
🎹👌
I just tuned my first piano thanks to you! Its old and left in unheated rooms, but its a playable piano now. And every handful of keys i tuned, i discovered little musical phrases to expan on at a future date. Again, many thanks 😊
Hi TOC, thanks for sharing about your successful piano tuning adventure! Very glad to inspire! Thanks from icy sweden! 🌞
Tack Mattias uppskattar din goda pedagogiska och respektfulla hantering av denna viktiga yrkeskategori.
Tack Dag. Ja jag tycker det är viktigt att det inte handlar om att trampa någon på fötterna. Utan bara om hur jag personligen gör för att stämma mina pianon. Och det har fungerat prima. ☀️🥁☕️
Clear and precise! Thanks for sharing this knowledge!
Thanks 🙏
@@MattiasHolmgren I just got an old piano as a gift from a friend and I'll bring it to my house tomorrow. Your video gave me the first directions about how to deal with the out of tune strings
Was about to hire my usual piano tuner again, but I was wandering if I could do it myself. This video is the best tutorial I’ve seen for piano tuning! Saved me $225!
Thanks Micil, always glad to hear my video on piano tuning is helping people out! 🎉🍿😄
Thank you for this excellent, clear and right to the point video, Mr. Holmgren. I have a 50+ year old Hardman upright that hasn’t been tuned in over 10 years I used to have an old-school piano tuner (using 4 different freq. tuning forks) come to my house every couple years, but I think he passed away, and the piano has just sat there, with the exception of an occasional hammering from the little hands of my grandkids.
Same here, used to have those old guys come in and do the tuning. But now I can do it whenever I want and also when those guys start dropping off. Tuning folks are hard to come by these days… and so is the real upright piano. Manu people swapped for an electric Roland / Yamaha or whatever. 😂😁🦊🥁☕️
This is a realy great video, without the pedantic attitude that most piano tunes have! I was just wondering, should it be mentioned to set the Pano Tuner app to Equal Temperament? If you do this with, say, Just Intonation, it can get messy...
Thanks! The Pano Tuner was preset to Equal Temperament tuning by default. ☕️
I dont have a piano nor skill to play one. You gained a sub dude. :)
Wow wonderful, welcome aboard hope you like my other content too! 😃☕️
I did that. It’s amazing to play a real piano!
Congrats, yeah nothing's like the real piano.
Thanks for this straight forward workflow, with my perfect pitch, playing a out of tune piano a music teacher uses to teach, behooves me! How can she not hear that the piano is completely dead.
Yeah the "bar piano" sound was never my thing either. Happy to hear you enjoy my piano tuning video! Thanks for the feedback! Have a wonderful weekend! 🌞
Outstanding. No frills but covered all the basic steps and clarified the use of the felt. Thank you Mattias!
Thanks Jake. Appreciate the feedback. Happy to share my piano tuning process! 🎄🥁☕️ Merry xmas
@@MattiasHolmgren Servant of the people Mattias! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you as well. 🌲🌟🌲
Great in depth tutorial, thank you man! I did stumble across some problems. It was perfectly in tune but 10 minutes later the notes I just tuned turned red in the Piano Tuning app... How could that happen? I do have to add, this piano wasn't tuned for a few years, recently picked up second hand.
If it's badly out of tune, this "falling" will usuallyhappen. I just go through the piano several times
@@MattiasHolmgren you are right. thank you so much, I ran to it for the second time and its much more stable
I like the Olafur Arnold’s motifs in your playing :)
Yes, a great inspiration obviously!
This will help immensily. My small non Profit I do work for got a piano as a donation which needs a tune. We can't justify to hire a professional tuner but buying a tuning kit and a bit of patience is something we can do
Happy to share some tips and my process of tuning my own piano. Good luck with the tuning and do let me know how it turns out for you. ;)
This video should be on top on the search. ! Other people suck and confuse everyone apparently! This guys is simple and easy
Oh thanks Juyo 🙏🌞😀 I'm very happy to share this DIY piano tuning tutorials. Piano tuning is really not that big of a deal (on most old pianos).
Thank you! Tuned my parents piano and now it's highly playable, no more sour chords.
You are welcome oskjan! Thanks for sharing your piano tuning success!!!☀️☀️☀️☕️
That improvisation sound just like some avicii song. maybe for a better day orchestra version with Ella tiritiello :)
Oh it does? 😉☕️
Thank you, you explained it well. Very clear and easy to follow.
I'm very happy my piano tuning video has inspired to many tuning sessions throughout the world! It's not a big deal! It just takes a little time. ;) THanks!
Wow...excellent video!
Thanks 🙏😃
I saw several free ones in my area. But I was worried about the cost of tuning lol. No worries now!
yup, get on it!
Hello Mattias
What you call "vibrations" in about 5:06 is called "beats". And as you say, once the beats stop, both strings are equal in tune. Otherwise, nicely done video with good explanations.
Cheers from Luxemburg, Laurent
Yeah, the ”beating”. Thanks
I am about to attempt this on our church piano. I gave my middle son a guitar like that (maybe) Gibson ES-335 that was once my dad’s guitar.
Wonderful, ES335 is a great guitar. Mine is a Gibson Midtown Custom semi hollow guitar.
hello, thanks so much for the video ❤. I pay about $150 every year for my grand piano tuning. Last year the piano tuner was sick but still came over and didn't do much for $150. I wasn't happy and have decided to learn how to tune my own piano and glad I found your video 😊
Thanks for sharing!! Yeah it's not a big deal, just takes some time.
Thanks, my friend.
You're welcome friend! 🌞
Thank you! I am not a piano player but my daughter does play. I was able to clean and tune a Baldwin upright and it sounds exponentially better. Quite a fun evening project.
Lovely to hear about your succeess. It’s lovely to be able to play the piano with a sweet tuning again. 👍😄
Ok, I just received the hammer tuning kit I ordered. And I found one key I knew was bad. OMG! Thank you so much, this was awesome! It helped so much. And your explanations were so simple and clear.
After fiddling trying to find a socket that would fit nicely, I was following along and ugh, I lost one of the strings badly and just couldn't trust the short connection on the pin with the 1/4" 12 point socket . I broke down and ordered a hammer and muting kit which arrived today--praying and hoping my wife wouldn't play it and find how far out of tune I made the one key. After having some soup for lunch, I went to work on the one key that I screwed up. Wow! Just wow! The hammer and your instructions it just worked flawlessly. I have a few more to go, but wow what an improvement!
Thanks again!
Oh, I didn't know piano's had pets. She has so many little dust bunnies.
What's the best way to vacuum out all the felt? I was thinking an an air hose, shop vacuum with a large receiver and a 20" box fan with air filters attached? and keep the room closed while doing this?
Greets Tony! Happy to inspire. ;) Yeah piano tuning isn't a big deal as long as you have a proper hammer! Great it worked out well. I need to go back and tune my own piano again since we've had so much fluctuations in both temperaturs and humidity during the swedish winter.
Hehe, dust bunnies. ;)
I've no idea how to clean that felt. But I would highly recommend a fiber cloth / tovel for cleaning the piano. Yeah keep a vacuum cleaner close! Tell me about it, I'm building a second floor on our house (and a brand new YouTUbe studio) and it gets pretty dusty every day, lol. Gonna take a while until it settles after the finished construction.
Thanks for writing and sharing your story!
Thank you very much.
You are welcome!
Mattias, I learned more from you in 10 minutes, than I learn from an entire course. Thank you!
Thats wonderful, happy to share some piano tips! Thanks for writing Eduardo! What kind of piano do you have? 🌱😄💎
@@MattiasHolmgren I have a baby grand Kawai. It is 30+ years old and it has been in the US, Brazil and now in Sweden.
yes we have an old piano collecting dust instead of memories. I just ordered the kit from ebay.
Many thanks.
I love your improvisation -light cheerful - maybe u can show how u improvise that - I'd love to play that beautiful and light feeling
Hi TOC, thanks and congrats! Hope you get the kit swiftly to begin tuning that old piano. Oh, thanks glad you enjoyed my little piano improvisation. When we improvise we usually mix (unintentionally and intentional) things we've picked up during the years of digesting music, listening / playing. This was just some soft played (broken chords); Cm -> Bb / D -> Eb -> Ab -> Bb -> Cm.
I'll see if I can make some piano playing episodes in a near future. I'm not a concert pianist or anything, but I did compose my share of music for games, film, albums and media since age 17 in 1995. Again, thanks and good luck with that piano. Let me know how the tuning goes! Cheers from rainy sweden. 🌞
@@MattiasHolmgren cool - thanks for your view of improvizing. Yes an improvizing video would be fascinating. Especially the light joyful type. Cool you made music for movies and games etc. Im not looking to be a concert pianist - Im looking to score my own screen plays & tv shows - so - you are the right guy to learn from. Much Joy
The piano is the most beautiful instrument in the world. My grandmother had an old upright and I fell in love with it. Been playing eversince
I agree Gary. It’s a wonderful experience drifting away playing an old (but well tuned) upright. It never gets out of time. ☀️😃
I got an old Piano from the 30's in questionable shape at a thrift store and want to try and make it usable myself. This helps a lot!
Wonderful, thanks! 🙏💎🍀
Great Video
Thanks!
Bravo from Houston Texas
thank!
I have a very old antique piano I just bought, this video is great because I could not find anyone that wanted to come tune it . lol
Congrats on your piano Paul. Thanks for the feedback. I’m glad to hear my piano tuning video helps people out with the tuning! Let me know how it turns out! Happy friday Paul! 😄🎁👌☕️
Everywhere I researched it said you should not tune it yourself, let a professional do it. But since I don't live in a city, for them just to drive here is already 100 bucks and the tuning itself another 200 I think so I'm glad I found this video. Thanks for the instructions, just ordered a kit. I don't understand why it told me everywhere that I have to get a professional for this. It doesn't seem to hard to figure out? Of course I guess to tune the whole piano I will need multiple hours but it doesn't seem like it is so hard to do just very time consuming or am I missing something?
Happy to hear about your story and incoming piano tuning kit. Of course, a professional tuning specialist will always tell you its imposaible to do yourself. I feel everyone should have the same option to tune it yourself, like any other instrument at home. Don’t bother the nay-sayers. Let them nag into empty space 😂🏆💪🌞 good luck with the tuning!
Thanks Mattias for the encouragements ! Phew I did it today !
What No one was telling me was, It's TOUGH tuning a Piano ? I almost gave up and wanna called a pros instead😰.
I didnt have the tuning clamp. Mainly I used the tuning hammer and 2 rubber wedges. I bought mine online, el cheapo, and they also gave 2 extra wedges, 1 got lost inside it and went down i think 😱. The hammer had a square hole and short, so its hard to tune minute differences as the strungs have been locked in that positions for years.
I did use PanoTuner, Thanks.
Initially I thought I only wanted to retune a few strings, then I found out the the whole piano had been tuned consistently 15% down. So I had to retune each and Every strings 😥😓😰😭 So I had to find Middle A first at 440 Hz. Not easy to get them all within 10% range up or down, bcos its an old upright piano, the strings must have been set for years !
Oh yeah, I had to remove the felt bar that dampen the hammers cos its in the way of tuning.
To those trying to do this at home, spare at least 5-6 hours to complete the job properly, maybe more.
Congratulations Broery! Nothing beats a newly tuned piano! Yeah it's easier to access the strings properly without that felt bar in the way. 😄 Thanks for sharing your story! 🌞☕
Thanks for the instructional video. Now I feel as though I can tune my own piano.
Yes you can 👌🥳
That was surprisingly straight-forward! lol
Hi Adam, yeah it just takes a little bit of patience. 😂🥳☕️
Thank you very much. Tuning was the main reason I stayed away from acoustic pianos, I'm reconsidering it now thanks to your tutorial.
Awesome!
Very good explanation 👍👍👍
Thanks! 🙏🍀
It is glad perfection in tuning software, dealing with all harmonic listening process, let people to concentrate in hammering technique, tricky but still easier than aural sound analyzing part.
Happy to help out! ☀️
Now that I’ve seen that the only tools you need are the tuning hammer and felt strip, I’m so glad that I didn’t purchase an elaborate tuning kit with a bunch of parts I won’t need. The kit arrives tomorrow, and I’ve already downloaded the tuning program that you are using. I’m going to enjoy this! Thanks again.
Superb Tom, happy to share. Hope u get that old piano back into shape. Yeah all u need is the hammer but the tuning dampening belt helps tremendously. Love to hear all the backstories. ☀️
Great video thanks a lot for the details!
Happy to share some piano joy Sunny! ☀️☕️🥁
This video is so helpful! This may seem like a silly question: can I tune note by note, working up the keyboard using the app?
Yes, of course that's how you do it. But while tuning also make sure you double check with playing a bit. DId you watch part 2 of my piano tuning video? I answer some questions on the tuning: ua-cam.com/video/-MASxd2-VTk/v-deo.html 🌞
So helpful thank you!
☀️🍿🥁 U art welcome Charlie!
I’m going to try to tune my aunt’s upright with this advice, thanks!
Two quick questions:
-What is the likelihood of snapping a string, especially if it’s an old piano that’s been sitting unloved for years.. is replacing a string straightforward as well?
-To my ear there’s something about uprights that always sounds a bit out of tune, even when they are in tune. Do you know what I mean, and is there some reason for that? Something muddled and “off” ... maybe it tends toward more “mid” frequency overall and the sounds don’t get spread out as much as a grand..?
Thanks Mattias!
Hi Chris,
I've tuned three different pianos, each piano about 2-3 times during a period of 15 years and I've never experienced snapping a piano string. My guess is because the tension adjustment you do when tuning is very very minimal (for the most part). And the strings are very durable.
Your question about "a bit out of tune":
The piano in this video is only partly tuned when shooting. But yes, I also feel a grand piano tends to sound more "perfect" when tuned compared to an upright.
@@MattiasHolmgren thanks so much! That gives me even more confidence to try tuning my aunt’s upright.
Take the maths and the moths apart and go to the point. Best video so far 🎉
Thanks Joni. Yeah ”point of interest” is what matters. Not the ”equal tempered tuning” math behind.😄💎
thank you very much you are a life saver
You are welcome! Did u manage to tune your old piano? 🥳🍿☕️
@@MattiasHolmgren Yes I'm actually doing it right now and till now it sounds perfect😁❤🙌🏼
Thank you very much. Really appreciate your video.
Wonderful, happy tuning and playing! 💪🥂🥳
Thank you for this amazing tutorial, I can finally play Somebody to Love by Queen in tune!! Your a legend! That jam was at the end tho was bloody awful.
Cool congrats! 😄💎
I decided to watch your video and give it a try. I don't really even play, just learning but I have an older Baldwin upright and while I paid someone to tune it last year I wasn't looking forward to spending another $200 this year. I have now completed two octaves and they sound lovely, I couldn't be more pleased. Thanks for your video!!
Happy to hear about your successful tuning Karlton! Glad to inspire. It's such a lovely experience to play a welltuned piano. Best instrument in the world!
Piano tune up is expensive. This will help a lot.
Totally Charles!
Great Video. Very well explained. Just a quick question. It looks like you used very few tools compared to those included as a link in the description (from Amazon). Could I buy a cheaper set with just the red temperament strip, wedge mutes and tuning hammer and still do the job well?
Yeah, but make sure you get the correct tuning hammer key/cap, check if its a square cap…or another type. Its vital the hammer fits to tune the strings. 😄
Ah yes, I'll verify that. Thank you.
Thank you, what is the beautiful song you play at the end please?
Olafur Arnalds - Saman, improvisation around that.
Like most people, you probably have an old piano collecting dust somewhere in the house. In this video I show you how to tune the piano all by yourself. You don't need to be a piano tuner expert or have super expensive tools. Basically it just requires a piano tuning hammer + a felt strap and a little bit of time. In the video we talk about what tools you need, how the different areas of the piano are tuned.
I hope you will find my piano tuning video useful, and that it will help you gain confidence to tune your own piano.
I don’t pretend to be a piano tuning expert, but this is how I tune the piano. ;)
We are not gonna get mathematical, there are plenty of other videos explaining the equally tempered tuning. Instead, we are going to focus on just tuning the piano.
Let me know if you have any questions in the video comments!
Check my piano tuning article for more indepth info and links:
www.morningdewmedia.com/how-to-tune-a-piano-best-practise/
Rubber mutes are good too for those who are not adept at putting the strip beween the strings, moving mutes is fairly quick.
Oh yeah, never tried rubber mutes. Excellent tip! Moving the felt strap is also quite quick.
I did it , thanks very much 😊
Congrats, see there! 👌👍🎉😄 It’s not that hard. 🥁🥳 Big 👻Boooo to the few negative comments!
This is an amazing tutorial, i love how you were very straightforward with it and this made me buy a piano tuning kit so I can tune our piano. Nice job!
Thanks a million. So happy this video has taken off and is so appreciated! A coffee back at ya! ☀️💎🥳☕️
Sounds good enough to my ears. Got a beautiful upright for 200 bones a little bit ago that I’m gonna try this to tomorrow. Wish me luck.
Best of luck Shawn!
@@MattiasHolmgren do you find on those apps your using (I downloaded the lite version of what you got and one called KeyTuner) are very fickle on the very low strings? And My chromatic guitar tuner only really picked up the middle of the piano which makes sense. Any suggestions?
Yeah its a bit harder to get those low strings recognized accurately with the tuning apps, I use my ears too and verify (tune) against an octave above.
Thanks for the explanation. Also, what's the song's name at the end of the video? I'd like to learn to play it :)
Hi, the three first chords are from Ólafur Arnalds - Saman. The rest is improvised with this as a starting point. I am going to do a piano improvisation video very soon, hope to inspire!
Thanks so much for this video! I can now tune my piano whenever I can tell it's out of tune (which is very often as I have perfect pitch lol) 😁 and I don't need to call someone to come tune it and wait till they can come and...you know how it goes! This is by far the best and easiest explanation I've found. Thank you!
Happy to help Elijas, thanks for the honest and kind feedback! I'm so glad this video is having great reach and growing! Did you watch part 2? 🌞🌟
I watched the second video! The only problem is that the piano tuning hammer seems like it's not the right size! Is there a certain size that I need to get? My piano is an older Wurlitzer upright. Thank you!
@@MattiasHolmgren I just got a new hammer, and this one is the right size! Thanks again for the video! I may even start a piano tuning business!
were the tools you used from the amazon kit? if not, where were they from!
Hi Emily. It was all in the Amazon Kit…. Except for the iPad app. 😄
What song is he playing at the very beginning of the jam at the end? I’ve heard it before and would love to learn it! Starting at like 10:05
Hi Russ, I am playing an improvisation around a few songs mixed together. ;) It's a bit of Olafur Arnalds and a bit of the Snowman, and a bit of my own melodies and arpeggios. ;)
Its Saman by Olafur Arnolds.
Like I said above, Its improvisations around a mixture of sources. I’m not playing complete piece of a selected song. Three chords from Olafur then it dwells away into something else.
I’m getting back into piano. Someone gave me their old piano because I didn’t have one. I didn’t know you had instruments to tune it. Thanks to you I know how now! Is it possible to tune it without the instruments?
Happy to inspire Lilian, hope your tuning goes well! Thanks for the feedback. I am so glad everyone is finding my video! 🎹☀️🎻🦊🍿☕️
You can use the pliers, but not recommended.
So many free pianos that are now looking like possibilities…
Wow what is the name of that song right at the beginning? It sounds beautiful!
Hi, thanks I was improvising on different chords I picked up through the years, the first three chords are from Olafur Arnalds Saman. The rest improvised.
A very interesting tutorial, thank you. I would also like to know the name of the song performed at the end, thank you, it's simply beautiful.
Hi, the three first chords are from Ólafur Arnalds - Saman. The rest is improvised. Thanks 😉
What was that felt muting strip you removed from your piano before the tuning procedure?? Was that an add-on or part of the original piano??
Hi Alex, oh, the white felt attached to a metal pin… its just the regular dampening felt (pedal dampener). Its original and ive seen it on most pianos Ive played 😃
Thank you! I've been playing the digital piano all my life, I've got an acoustic one since yesterday, it sounds great once it's tuned!
Happy tuning 🏆🌞
Hi I was wondering what the purpose of the tuning clamp mentioned at the start is? Is it worth it to buy one?
Yes the clap is great for muting strings at higher range where dampening cloth doesnt fit.
Thank you for the video
You are welcome Tommy!
Thank you very much, I'm interested in learning how to tune pianos, and this has been very helpful!
You are welcome Dimitriy! Happy piano tuning! ☀️🥳🍿
Thank you very muchi!!!!
You're welcome Mikey!
So when tuning a piano, can one just start from the lowest key then work their way up the piano? Or do you have to tune C first then A second, vise versa…
My typical process is that I begin at the middle A as suggested in the video and begin upwards a bit, then go down some, then up, etc. I dunno if that's the best practise though. I'm not an expert! This is just the DYI method! And it works for me!
@@MattiasHolmgren thanks for the tip. Subbed👍
Thank you so much!
You're welcome!
Thank you very much for this video. It has given me the confidence to attempt this on my old player piano. Pro tuners tend to charge more for player pianos due to the cramped nature of their innards.
Sure thing, let me know how it goes. Happy tuning! ;)
Thank you!
You're welcome Nicolas, good to have you onboard! 🎻
This was fascinating thank you!
Thanks Kimberly! ☀️☕️
There's so many pianos for free where I currently live. Most post says they just need a tuning. I'm excited to get my hands on one.
Yeah they give pianos away for free these days. They don't know what they're missing. Every home should have at least one piano IMO. ;) Looking forwad to hear about your tuning experience Ella! 🎹🌞
this video was amazing. im getting a free piano from market place that i'm going to pick up this week that im sure will need some tuning. You're awesome! thank you for making things seem not so intimidating!!!!! with love, rayray
Thanks for writing Rachel! I’m happy to help out,. Enjoy that new piano and lemme know how the tuning goes! 🥳🥁☕️☀️
Hi Mattias ! Thank you for this nice video, it helped me to understand the basics and hopefully i am going to try and tune my Piano for the first time.
Glad it was helpful Dayan!
Thanks Again Mattias, will let you know if i am successful.
has anyone told you what a life saving video this is? thanks for the help man! my regards from brazil!
Thanks Bruno, yes I am very happy my piano tuning video is so appreciated and has helped many people take the steps to set their piano in tune once and for all! ☀️🍿🥳🎻☕️🥁
Wow, just what I needed!!!! Excellent video! Now I´ll start looking after a piano tuning hammer:)
Thank you very much:)))))
Glad I could help Gúnter!