The Piano Tuner

The PTG is an international, not for profit, organization which exists to enhance and standardize the service quality level of piano tuning, regulating, repair and rebuilding. Members of the PTG gather for monthly meetings in which the technical aspects of the piano servicing industry are discussed. PTG members pool their years of knowledge and share their innovations and discoveries with each another. Since the technical aspects of piano tuning and repair lend themselves well to new discoveries, this has been a very vibrant aspect of the Guild.

The Guild also offers its members increasing opportunity to challenge themselves against measures of excellence which are standardized across North America. These measures deal with a very wide scope of both information and skill development.

The opportunity for Regional and National conferences are available to PTG members where the industry's best practitioners convene to share their skills and teachings with PTG members.

Piano tuners and technicians who are members of the Guild are essentially very active in the lifelong honing of their trade.

As with searching for a backyard mechanic to work on our car, we will find an occasional wonderful mechanic that is naturally gifted in the profession and has, through formal or informal learning, become a master in his own right.  We will also more readily find mechanics who have some limited knowledge but have stopped learning at an earlier time and can only bring our car to the best of their limitations.

Such is the case with Piano tuners.  We may, in our search for a reputable tuner/technician, find a wonderfully gifted person (such as Chesterville's Wayne Dunbar.)  We are unfortunately more likely, by sheer odds, to have found our mechanic with outdated information.

The availability of current resources through the PTG is so rich that we would hope that the backyard mechanics of the piano industry would find their way to them so that they can continue to serve their clients by using the best techniques at their disposal.

One final note on this matter is that aural tuning (tuning by ear) has had major advances in the last thirty years due to the information gleaned by measuring tunings with Electronic Tuning Devices.  PTG members are aware of the latest developments and customers can be assure that the tuner that they've selected is strongly committed to assuring that piano owners and players get the highest quality of service that they've paid for and deserve.  

If you are looking for piano tuning and servicing, I highly recommend that you book an appointment with a member of the PTG.