Tag Archives: Melrose Ma Piano tuner

Haven’t seen this on such a high end piano before . . .

This is a 7’6″ Schimmel Grand piano is such a pleasure to tune and play. I noticed hammer #1 is coming undone. Renner hammers are very high end and I was very surprised to see this. Not an easy fix!

Strange find in a piano

Don’t know if you can make these out but there are strange staples on two out of the three strings per note.  Just about all of the “tri chord” notes on the piano had these.  I remember seeing these at a guild meeting but never tuned a piano with them on.  I have to say …

Pianos by Jay subject of Documentary (sort of). . .

A Harvard student chose me as the subject of her ‘intro to documentary making’ class.  The 3 min video looks like the start of a documentary to me.  See if you don’t agree: http://youtu.be/K3iKdHu1_UY  

I’m going to give this service a try . . .

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Piano tuning for “Absolutely Fabulous” Restaurant in Melrose Ma.

I have started reading piano companies “creeds

I love to read what piano companies write on their pianos.  Janssen piano’s seem the have the funniest/best creed out there.  I always get a kick out of it.

Piano tuning for WinchesterChamber Music Festival

A nice tuning on a Steinway “D” 9 foot Concert Grand Piano at the Melrose Memorial Hall. The Winchester Chamber Music held their festival in Melrose this year. I believe one of the reasons is that Memorial Hall is air conditioned!

Pianos by Jay joins the Melrose Chamber of Commerce

In an effort to keep close ties with my home town community I have joined the Melrose, Ma. Chamber of Commerce. I enjoy being involved in my community and hope to build long lasting professional relationships. Melrose is a town on its way up. There are some restaurants that have nice pianos as well as …