Piano Tuning: A Simple and Accurate Method for Amateurs (Dover Books On Music: Piano)

by J. Cree Fischer

Book Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486232670
• Release Date: June 1975
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.5" x 5.4"

Customer Reviews

You can really do it! Learn how to tune a piano

This book is ancient, I think from the early 20th century, but still holds true and is an excellent and straight forward resource. As a pianist, it has been a revelation to understand how it is done, and even more fun to actually achieve a reasonable tuning myself (with a little help from my professional piano tuning friend.. OK, so I cheated a little...!). Highly recommended. To make life a little easier, I recommend getting a quality electronic (chromatic) tuner to tune the middle octave, after that use the octaves and 5ths to do the rest. Full marks to Dover - again. They provide a great collection of classics on music, especially piano related stuff. I think I have perhaps 5-6 books by this publisher.

Piano Tuning and repair, straight to the point

While I have not seen many other books about piano tuning, I was surprised how this book always comes straight to the point. It covers not only how to tune a piano, but also how a piano works (upright and grand), how to repair it and the theory of temprament.The book has originally been written in 1907 for people who wanted to become piano tuner. In the recent edition, however, they removed the chapters on Business Hints and Charges :-)If you own a piano and you want to maintain it yourself, this book is for you.