How To Tune Your Own Piano - Tuning the Lower Register

Learn how to tune your own piano. This is Lesson 3 in this series. Watch first 2 lessons:

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Paul Tobey

How To Tune Your Own Piano | Tips
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If you move your piano to a different location, let your piano sit a couple of days before you tune it.
When using the tuning hammer, only move it ever so slightly in jerk-like movements.
Try spot tuning a note before attempting to tune a whole piano.

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

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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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[Jazzmentl]

Thanks for hanging in there with me during this move. Now that I finished tuning my piano (and made 3 lessons of it), we get back to help you learn jazz. Just in time for Valentine's day. ❤

[viggosimonsen]

The wavering of strings that are not unison is called 'beats' in acoustics

[christinesharp]

Brilliant! Thank you so much! My boyfriend bought me a piano tuning kit because I live in the forest in Ontario...no piano tuners here! I think I did ok, but I'll keep tuning to try to get as close to 0 as possible. Very easy to follow you so thanks again for that. Now I'm going to play! : )

[michaelsmith]

I love the way the app “hears” those low notes!

[roberttemple]

I have decided to try to tune up the current outside public piano in my town. This has helped a lot. I will be dealing with rusty strings, so I will back them off a tad before tuning up. It is my understanding this is preferable because it first breaks the minor rust weld, if any, perhaps lessening a chance of breaking a string. Currently, the piano is horribly out of tune. I like to play tunes like Goodbye Pork Pie Hat, Bemsha Swing, 'Round Midnight, Blue Bossa, Garota do Ipanema, Misty and more. I have my own jazz/blues things I have expanded on over the decades, too. None of that sounds very good now on the outside piano, so I will get to fixin' it shortly, if the creek don't rise.

[michaelsmith]

Do you find that after tuning a whole section to the piano meter where the rectangles are as still as possible and the needle is pretty much at 0, the piano is flat after fixing up the unisons?

[sayonara]

Hi if it’s 10 cents flat, I should turn to the right ? Thanks

[maxaudibert]

Hello, to tune a note, once you tune a string, isn’t it just possible to mute it and immediately after tune the second string alone with the app, then they are both in unisson? Could this work? Well i mean i’m not sure to be able by ear to find the unisson. Thank you!!

[AdamMiller-luri]

I'm going to be tuning an Archer upright grand piano, it was last tuned on January 12, 1958, do you think after a couple of tunings it will hold its tune?

[sayaSai]

When you tune lower strings, do you tune close to 0, or -5to -10 cents lower as suggested in the curve?

[johnmarkhatfield]

ha…i was struggling with the last 3-4 notes and i was wondering how to get it by ear. i can hear something is flat or sharp, but after i’ve altered it slightly my ear poops out and feels lost.

i have used precision strobe tuner as my ap, but i’ll try your rec. i like the visual of the flat and sharp curve overlay with the piano, and it’s good to know it’ll do the low notes.

i was quickly taught how to tune with a similar analogue tuner, but i was told to turn it off for the higher and lower and do it by ear.

i’ve been a by ear purist before only tuning A440, but those very highest and lowest notes are when my ear and patience is wearing thin.

[sayonara]

Hi if the piano meter shows + 10, you tighten the pin and screw to the right? To try and bring it to 0? Thank u

[jrbommelen]

Please can you show a complete tuning from starting to finalised tuning incl sound of octaves before and after tuning ? Now we only hear single keys...

[difabn]

You muted every string in the bi chords, gonna make it kind of difficult to tune those

[hilarytoussaint]

WILL THERE SOMETIME BE A STRINGTENSION METER BUILT INTO THE TUNING HAMMER SO AS TO AVOID THE BREAKING OF STRINGS. SOMETHING LIKE THE TORQUE WRENCH USED BY AUTOMOTIVE MECHANICS. HI TUNING GREAT TOOL FOR GUYS LIKE US WHICH IS A TERRIBLE SYNDROME.