GORGE PIANO

I'm Mike Turley and I have been tuning, regulating, and repairing pianos since 1997. My initial training began in 1997 when I was working on a music master's degree at Northwestern State University in Louisiana. The school had an elderly piano tuner named Frank who would come tune all the pianos by ear. Every time he was on campus I would watch him work and ask lots of questions. After seeing that I was fascinated with the process Frank convinced me that tuning pianos is something I could do. He was right. He patiently shared with me some of his best tips and tricks to get me started on the path of piano tuning. Before too long I was tuning a piano by ear with just a tuning fork, some mutes, and a tuning lever. I eventually discovered that with the aid of an electronic tuner I could tune more quickly, more accurately, and produce more consistent results.