How to Buy a Good Used Piano Book and Video
Willard Leverett, RPT   

If you have any interest in buying a piano, new or used, this book will help you learn how to screen out the bad and recognize the good - upright, spinet and grand pianos. This step-by-step video shows you how to inspect a piano and detect problems with the soundboard, pinblock, strings, bridges, keys, action, dampers, pedals, case and veneer.

The Piano Book
Buying & Owning a New or Used Piano
Larry Fine, RPT   2001

For twenty years the standard consumer guide to buying a new or used piano. How a piano works, debunking myths told by salespeople, how to shop for a new piano and negotiate price, ratings and comparisons of new pianos, how to inspect a used piano and estimate its value, piano moving, storage, and servicing. 100 line drawings. Foreword by Keith Jarrett.

The Piano Book Supplement 2006-2007
Larry Fine, RPT   2006

The "Blue Book" of pianos. Contains list prices for 4,000 models of new piano and suggestions on how to estimate "street" prices. Also contains a cumulative update to descriptions of manufacturers and models since publication of the Fourth Edition of The Piano Book.

Edition Bochinsky Publishers
Technical Books about music in German
  

Verlag Erwin Bochinsky maintains a large collection of German Language Technical Books about musical instruments including the piano.

Longitudinal Modes In Piano Strings
James F. Ellis, RPT   2006

A detailed description of observation, study, research and experimentation into the mechanisms that excite longitudinal modes in piano strings. Also includes practical methods for reducing longitudinal ringing. 78 pages, spiral-bound.

The Making of a Steinway Concert Grand
James Barron   2005

A Nobel Art
Three Lectures on the Evolution And Construction of the Piano
Fanny Morris Smith   2005

Piano
New Grove Musical Instrument Series
Philip Belt   1988

The Piano - Its Acoustics
W. V McFerrin   1972

A scientific study of piano design and design principles. Scale design.

The Piano Key and Whippen
Walter Pfeiffer   1967

A highly technical book translated from German. This book does a mathematical analysis of action geometry and action designs.

Piano Tone Building
Del Fandrich, RPT   

A 2006 updated, redesigned version of the classic reference on the elements of piano tone. Based on discussions of piano building that took place from 1916 through 1919, this book was created to document these meetings between piano manufacturers, suppliers and technical experts. In addition to the technical community--manufacturers, engineers and piano technicians--Piano Tone Building will intrigue everyone whose interest in the piano goes beyond banging out a few tunes on the family upright.

Theory and Practice in Piano Construction
William Braid White   1975

Treatise on the Art of Pianoforte Construction
Samuel Wolfenden   1984

A comprehensive book about all aspects of designing and building a piano. From plate design to string scaling this book lays out the principles that have lasted for years.

88 Keys
The Making of a Steinway Piano
Miles Chapin   2006

This handsome volume takes you inside the process of building a Steinway, from the selection of the woods through the construction of the soundboard and keyboard, from the manufacture of the piano's rim and case through the building of the metal harp that holds the strings, and to the final assembly and finishing. Along the way are sections on history and physics (good tone doesn't just happen) and a useful glossary.

The Art of the Piano
Its Performers, Literature and Recordings
David Dubal   2005

But You Can Feel It
Emil B. Fries, RPT   1980

Here is the life story of Emil B. Fries, from his boyhood in a log cabin, through his struggles for education, to international recognition in vocational training of the visually impaired in piano technology. Many photos.

Dear Doctor Piano
Ken Burton, RPT   1993

A humorous look at a piano tuners life. Answers to questions posed to a piano tuner over year of service. Dispells some of the common myths.

Forever Music
A Tribute to the Gift of Creativity
Edith Schaeffer   1986

A story of a pianist, a piano, and a piano technician.

Grand Obsession: A Piano Odyssey
A Piano Odyssey
Perri Knize   2008

One woman's search for the perfect piano sound.

My Favorite Intermissions
Lives of the Musical Greats, and Other Facts you Never Knew You Were Missing
Victor Borge (Author), Robert Sherman (Author), Thomas Winding (Illustrator)   1971

Notes of a Piano Tuner
Denele Pitts Campbell, RPT   1998

While servicing pianos in the back road of the Arkansas Ozarks, Campbell relates her musings on the people and the work.

The Piano
A Piano Technicians Guide for the Piano Owner
Phil Gurlik, RPT   1985

This book was written by a piano technician (Phil Gurlik, RPT) for his clients, to teach them about the instrument they love and cherish, and inform them about the services available from their piano technician to protect and enhance the value and playability of their piano. Now in its Fourth Edition, it includes update additions by Randy Potter, RPT, as well.

Piano Lessons
Music, Love, and True Adventures
Noah Adams   1997

The difference between the piano lessons Noah Adams took and the ones most of us took was that he was 51, not 7, and -- lucky Noah -- his mother didn't make him practice. This is not only a delightful account of his twelve-month nose-to-the-grindstone attempt to learn to play the $11,000 Steinway he bought on a whim, but also the story of his many-year process of falling in love with music and its history.

Piano Nomenclature
Asian Edition
Schimmel   1998

This practical guide for identifying piano parts includes vocabulary in four languages: English, Japanese, Korean and Chinese Taipei. Based on the original Piano Nomenclatur by Nikolaus Schimmel H.K. Herzog, the Asian version includes the same charts, vocabulary and numbers as the European language version. 64 pages. Softcover. Limited quantities available.

Piano related magazines
  

Amazon offers a selection of piano related magazine subscriptions.

The Piano Shop on the Left Bank
Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier
Thad Carhart   2002

A delightful story of a reporters encounter with quirky piano rebuilders in Paris.

Piano-Nomenclatur
N. Schimmel   1983

This is a reference book with pictures of piano parts and their names in German-English-French-Italian-Norwegian-Spanish. An important reference for dealing with technical literature in many languages.

Piano
The Making of a Steinway Concert Grand
James Barron   2006

Pianos Piano Tuners and Their Problems
George W. Booth   1996

Reprints about Pianos from Music Trades Magazine
  

Amazon has many reprints from Music Trades magazine about many different subjects.

String Around My Finger
Rolland Stiefel, RPT   1985

The life story filled with faith of leading piano tuner, Rolland Stiefel and his life of faith and music. Rolland was a long time member of PTG.

The Wonders of the Piano
The Anatomy of the Instrument
Catherine C. Bielefeldt   1984

Tone Deaf and All Thumbs?
An invitation to music making for late bloomers and non-prodigys
Frank R. Wilson   1987

Wilson is a neurologist who starting playing the piano later in life. He discusses how the brain learns and why music making is valuable to us all.

Cembalobau/Harpsichord Contruction
Martin Skowroneck   

The German Harpsichord maker Martin Skowroneck is one of the pioneers of historical instrument building. The study and restoration of original instruments has led him to attempt to recover many of the working methods of the old masters. Based on his own practical experience, this book focuses on many important aspects of building in the historical manner. His construction principles, working methods and the selection of materials are explained in depth and rounded off with numerous tips from the craftsman's workshop. 270 pages. 24 plates. Text in English and German.

De Clavicordio Volume VI
Proceedings of the International Clavichord Symposium
Various   1995

Harpsichord Clearing House is the exclusive representative in the United States for this series of important books, each volume well illustrated and full of articles by leading scholars, builders and performers.

The Harpsichord Clearing House
  

This site has many books about harpsichords including many out of print and hard to find books.

The Harpsichord Owner`s Guide
Edward L. Kottick   

A clear, concise, up-to-date guide to buying, maintaining, and tuning this instrument that includes a short history and discussion of the different types of harpsichord and their use in different kinds of music. Paperback

A History of the Harpsichord
This richly illustrated volume traces 600 years of harpsichord design and construction.
Edward L. Kottick   2003

A History of the Harpsichord brings together for the first time more than 200 photographs, illustrations, and drawings of harpsichords in public museums and private collections throughout Europe and the United States. Edward L. Kottick draws on his extensive technical knowledge and experience as a harpsichord builder to detail the changing design, structure, and acoustics of the instrument over six centuries. The book is clothbound and comes with an accompanying audio CD featuring performances on many of the instruments discussed.

Playing the Harpsichord Expressively
Mark Kroll   

Mark Kroll has a written a book to teach the art of expressive harpsichord playing to those who have had some experience on the instrument, and also to pianists and organists who want to play this repertoire on the instrument for which it was composed. Presented together with quotes from the most important primary sources on the instrument, the book contains more than 100 musical examples in an easily accessible format and an extensive bibliography.

Historical Tuning of Keyboard Instruments
Robert Chuckrow, Ph.D.   

Learn the essential concepts necessary to understand historical tunings. Chapter topics include: About Vibrations, The Pythagorean System of Tuning, Tuning the Pythagorean Scale, Just Tuning, Equal Temperament, Intervals, Cents, and Commas, Meantone Temperament, and Well Temperament. Very little knowledge of music theory or mathematics is required to appreciate this book. 74 pages.

Temperament
How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization
Stuart Isacoff   2003

With the existing literature tending to bog down in mathematical theory or historical tuning methods, Isacoff bravely attempts to make this seemingly arcane topic interesting to the general reader. He distills the mathematics and music theory into their simplest essences, and draws apt analogies from the everyday. He also generously peppers the text with the quirks and escapades of its more flamboyant central characters; the relevance of the information is often tenuous at best, but Isacoff has obviously done his homework, and he can be forgiven some frivolity.

http://www.harpsichord.com/Store/store_frmset.html
A handbook for tuning harpsichords and fortepianos, with tuning techniques and tables
Owen Jorgensen, RPT   1981

This is Mr. Jorgensen's small book of many of the most useful historical temperaments and directions for tuning them.

Tuning
Containing the Perfection of 18th Century Temperament, the Lost Art of 19th Century Temper
Owen Jorgensen, RPT   1991

An enormous book containing directions for tuning historical temperaments both by ear and using electronic equipment. This book is the granddaddy of books with nearly every conceiveable historical tuning. Out of print and difficult to find.

Tuning the Historical Temperaments by Ear
A manual of eighty-nine methods for tuning fifty-one scales on the harpsichord, piano, and
Owen Jorgensen, RPT   1977

The first of Mr. Jorgensen's books with directions for tuning historical temperaments. Out of print and difficult to find.

Anatole and the Piano
Eve Titus   1990

Anatole, the conductor of the Mouse Symphony Orchestra, travels deep inside a grand piano to solve a perplexing problem. Pre-school level

Arthur Plays the Blues
A Marc Brown Arthur Chapter Book 29
Marc Brown   2003

Arthur has a new piano teacher, the reknowned Dr. Fugue. After his teacher "fires" him, Arthur needs to decide how much he wants to learn to play the piano -- and then trys to win back his teacher.

Blind Boone - Piano Prodigy
A Biography
Madge Harrah   2003

An introduction to the remarkably gifted but no longer widely known African-American pianist. Age 9-12

The Cat Who Loved Mozart
Patricia Austin, Henri Sorensen (Illustrator)   2001

The music of Mozart creates a special friendship between a girl and her new pet. Ages 4-8

Gus and Grandpa and the Piano Lesson
Claudia Mills, Catherine Stock (Illustrator)   2004

Gus has a hard time with his piano lessons until Grandpa shows him how to get the music in his fingers. Ages 4-8

Henry the Steinway and the Piano Recital
Sally Coveleskie, Peter Goodrich, Laura Friedman   2002

It's almost time for the yearly recital in the big hall, but poor Ana just isn't ready. She keeps forgetting the notes and the rhythm--it doesn't seem as if she can play at all. Her teacher says practice, practice, practice, but Ana doesn't think that will help. And then.HER PIANO SPEAKS TO HER! "My name is Henry. Henry the Steinway," he says so kindly. And, with his help, Ana knows she can learn to make beautiful music! A gentle story that will stimulate youngsters' imaginations--and encourage children to reach for their goals, no matter how far away they seem.

Henry the Steinway Tours the World
Sally Coveleskie, Peter Goodrich, Laura Friedman (Illustrator)   2005

Summer is here and Ana and HENRY THE STEINWAY are about to embark on a great adventure! Ana's father, the famous concert pianist, is taking them an exciting world tour, to premier new music written by his friend and composer Grace. Ana, along with her best friend, Lily, travel to Buenos Aires, Paris, London, Tokyo, Hamburg and Los Angeles.

La Leçon de piano de madame butterfly
Susanne Janssen   2000

L'auteur se remémore les leçons de piano chez madame Butterfly: les pianos partout, l'excentrique musicienne, la pizza qu'elle faisait, etc. Un portrait originale et des illustrations singulières, avec du mouvement et en plongée.

The Living Piano
Barrie Carson Turner   1998

Provides background on the instrument's history and how it is made and played, biographies of 10 composers, a brief gallery of great musicians and an index. All Ages

Miranda
Tricia Tusa   1986

Miranda loves to play Bach, Haydn, and Mozart - until the day she discovers boogie-woogie, a day her family quickly regrets. Ages 4-8

Mozart Finds a Melody
Stephen Costanza   2004

Ages 4-8

Mr. Silver and Mrs. Gold
Dale Borman Fink, Shirley Chan   1980

Two old people become friends and share many activities together. The piano plays a big part in this.

Mrs. Merriwether`s Musical Cat
Carol Purdy   1997

A cat named Beethoven inspires the students of a dedicated music teacher to play their best. Ages 4-8

Music Box: The Story of Cristofori
Suzanne Guy, Donna Lacy   1998

My Friend the Piano
Catherine Cowan, Kevin Hawkes (Illustrator)   1998

Ages 4-8

Nana Hannah`s Piano
Barbara Bottner, Diana Cain Bluthenthal (Illustrator)   1996

When Nana Hannah twists her ankle and needs cheering up, her grandson moves in for a week and is inspired to learn a song and discovers that maybe there is more to life than baseball. Ages 4-8

Nate the Great and the Musical Note
Marjorie Sharmat, Craig Sharmat   1991

Miniature detective Nate the Great has yet another case to solve. Rosamond turns a phone message from Pip's mother into a music lesson with a secret meaning and Nate steps in to solve the mystery. Ages 4-8

The Piano - What in the World
Nick Healy   2005

A Piano for Julie
Eleanor Schick   1984

A young girl and her father search for the perfect piano. Pre-school

Piano with a Soul
Richard Krzys, Ann Hewitt (Contributor), Jan Strock (Illustrator), David Byrne (Illustrato   2003

Anxious to honor her mother's memory by learning to play Beethoven's "Für Elise" on the piano, Elise soon discovers that the instrument her grandmother has purchased has a soul of its own. Ages 4-8

Pianos from Start to Finish
Made in the USA
Stephen Currie, Kathy Mclaughlin (Illustrator)   2006

Pick up your special visitor's pass and come along on a tour of the Steinway piano factory in Queens, New York! Find out how pianos are made, from treating the wood to installing the strings to final tuning. You'll never look at pianos in the same way again!

Polly and the Piano
Carol Montparker   2004

Polly is a dog who becomes involved in her owner's desire to play a piano concert at Carnegie. The story is told by Polly from her perspective. Polly's "most unusual doghouse in the world" is under the piano, where she is close up to her owner giving piano lessons and practicing Bach, Mozart, and Brahms in the hope of appearing in Carnegie Hall one day.

Two Piano Tuners
M.B. Goffstein   1970

To Debbie Weinstock, an alert and persistent little girl, the sound of a piano being tuned by a good piano tuner is better than any kind of music. Her grandfather, Reuben Weinstock, is the best piano tuner in the world. But above all he is a good man and Debbie is determined to be just like him.

Novels about Pianos
  

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Piano Girl
A Memoir
Robin Meloy Goldsby   2006

Piano Girl is the story of a young woman’s accidental career as a cocktail lounge piano player. This entertaining memoir provides a glimpse into the comedies, tragedies, and mundane miracles witnessed from the business side of the eighty-eights. Showing how she had connected with people she has met while touring the world, Robin Goldsby is full of insights into the art of piano playing as well as inspiring life lessons. Piano Girl shows that anything can happen as people wander through Robin’s real-time soundtrack to life.

The Piano Teacher
Elfriede Jelinek   2002

A brilliant and uncompromising tale of sexuality and violence set in modern Vienna

The Piano Tuner
Daniel Mason   2002

Great Contemporary Pianists Speak for Themselves
Elyse Mach   1991

Fascinating interviews with 25 renowned pianists: Ashkenazy, Badura-Skoda, Bolet, Brendel, de Larrocha, Gould, Horowitz, Ohlsson, Tureck, Watts, 15 more. Revealing, candid thoughts about themselves, their careers, music they play, life of a concert pianist. "Mach’s interviews will enhance the pleasure of any concertgoer."—People. Introduction by Sir Georg Solti. 51 black-and-white photographs.

The Great Pianists
From Mozart to the Present
Harold C. Schonberg   1987

Great Pianists on Piano Playing
Godowsky, Hofmann, Lhevinne, Paderewski and 24 Other Legendary Performers (Great Pianists:
Various   1999

Great pianists discuss topics ranging from piano technique and musical development to becoming a virtuoso. Included are Busoni’s "Important Details in Piano Study," Rachmaninoff’s "Essentials of Artistic Playing," Paderewski’s "Breadth in Musical Art," and much more. 2 Introductory Essays. Artist Biographies. Artists’ Study Questions. 27 halftones.

Great Pianists Speak
Adele Marcus, Gina Bachauer, Karl Ulrich Schnabel, Claude Frank, Jorge Bolet, Rudolf Firku   1978

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My Life with the Great Pianists
Franz Mohr, Edith Schaeffer   1996

Franz Mohr has been head concert technician for Steinway. This book tells of his experiences with the great pianists he has worked for.

Afternoon Etude
Art Poster by Yunessi, with Wood Frame, poster size: 3in x 47in
Yunessi   

Andre Renaud
size 18in x 24in
Colin   

Piano Artwork
  

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The Book of the Piano
Dominic Gill   1981

A beautiful full color history of the piano loaded with pictures. Chronicles the pianos role in music history.

Encyclopedia of Keyboard Instruments
The Piano
Robert Palmieri (Editor), Margaret W. Palmieri (Editor)   1994

Giraffes Black Dragons and Other Pianos
A Technological History from Cristofori to the Modern Concert Grand
Edwin M. Good   2001

This lavishly illustrated book treats the history of the piano from its invention in 1700 to the present in terms of its technology. Looking at the technologies of design, materials, and manufacture, and focusing its description on specific existing pianos, it describes the changes in pianos from the earliest days to contemporary instruments.

A History of Midwestern Piano Manufacturing
Jack Greenfield, RPT   

This fascinating book provides an in-depth look at the piano makers of the Midwest, their progress and their place in the industry. 156 pages.

History of the American Pianoforte
Daniel Spillane   1969

The early days of the American piano industy

History of the Piano
Ernest Closson   1947

Le Piano
John-Paul Williams   2003

Rédigé par un technicien et restaurateur spécialisé, il est enrichi d'une iconographie somptueuse, de nombreux schémas et de photographies détaillées par étapes pour mieux comprendre cet instrument de passion, qu'il soit droit, à queue, neuf ou de seconde main.

The Lives of the Piano
a consideration, celebration, a history and a genealogy of pianos and their friends
James R. Gaines   1981

A nice history of the piano loaded with pictures of composer, piano factories, and unusual pianos

Maker of the Piano 1700-1800
Martha Novak Clinkscale   1993

Makers of the Piano 1700-1820 is the first book to present details about all known extant pianos built during the earliest years of the instrument's existence. Biographical information about each maker and such details about his instruments as the place and date of manufacture, style, compass, case description and measurements, strings, action, stops, pedals, and present and former owners are given.

Men Who Have Made Piano History
Alfred Dolge   1980

The stories of many of the most famous piano makers.

Men Women and Pianos
A Social History
Arthur Loesser   1991

Internationally known pianist’s delightful "piano’s-eye view" of western European and American social history (17th century to the present). With wit and erudition, Mr. Loesser traces the history of the instrument’s design and manufacture and music written for it—from the clavichord and harpsichord to the modern spinet and concert grand.

Music for the Millions
The Kimball Piano and Organ Story
Van Allen Bradley   1957

People and Pianos
A Pictorial History of Steinway and Sons
Theodore Steinway   2005

Using photographs and anecdotes, this book chronicles the business from its beginnings through the Depression, when many piano manufacturers went out of business, through World War II, when the company was forbidden to make pianos, and through the advent of modern technology.

Piano
Gérard Gefen   2002

Aucun instrument de musique n'est plus familier ni, en même temps, plus mystérieux que le piano. Bien qu'il soit l'un des instruments de musique les plus récents - trois siècles au plus - son ascension a été aussi irrésistible, son histoire aussi riche, voire aussi agitée que celle d'une grande famille. Gérard Gefen conte cette saga du piano, dont les péripéties, entre art et industrie, ont complètement transformé notre oreille et qui, grâce à Beethoven ou à Pleyel, à Steinway ou à Scott Joplin.

Piano
A Photograpic History of the World's Most Celebrated Instrument
David Crombie   1995

An absolutely beautiful full color pictorial history of some of the most interesting and important pianos ever.

Piano
A Pictorial Account of Its Ancestry and Development
Helen R. Hollis   1984

The Piano
An Inspirational Guide to the Piano and Its Place in History
John-Paul Williams   2002

The Piano provides a lavishly illustrated history of the instrument

The Piano - A History
Cyril Ehrlich   1990

For more than a century the piano has occupied a dominant place in music and society. Here, Ehrlich traces the instrument's fascinating history from the fortepiano of Mozart's time, and the Victorian's "household orchestra and god," to the most sophisticated modern products of the Japanese manufacturers.

The Piano Makers
David Anderson   1982

Text and photographs describe the methods and tools used in making a concert grand piano at the Steinway factory in New York City.

Le piano Pleyel
d'un millénaire à l'autre
Trinques Jean-Jacque   2004

en français

Piano Roles
A New History of the Piano
James Parakilas   2002

Pianoforte-A Social History of the Piano
Dieter Hildebrandt   1999

Pianos and Their Makers
Alfred Dolge   1972

Leading inventor offers full history of piano technology, earliest models to 1910. Types, makers, components, mechanisms, musical aspects. 300 illustrations.

Pierce Piano Atlas
Bob Pierce, Larry Ashley   2003

A listing of piano manufacturers and serial numbers. This allows you to date most pianos.

Le Roman du piano
du XIXe au XXe siècle
Dieter Holdebrandt   2003

Voici l'histoire du pianoforte, de cette "boite-à-touches-pour-jouer-fort-et-doucement", comme l'appelait Beethoven. En mélomane passionné et érudit, Dieter Hildebrandt érige le piano en héros de roman et relate son évolution au cours des deux derniers siècles.

Steinway and Sons
Richard K. Lieberman   1997

An overview of a great company and the musical epoch it was in.

Steinway Saga
D. W. Fostle   1995

A history of the family that led the piano industry. It's ups and downs in the industry

Steinway: From Glory to Controversy
The Family, the Business, the Piano
Susan Goldenberg   1996

1970-1999 Piano Technicians Journal on CD-ROM
  

252 issues published between 1970-1999 on 4 CD-ROMs. Searchable by keyword, title, author, or issue. Windows or Mac.

2000-2002 Journal on CD-ROM
  

2000-2002 Supplement
36 Issues from 2000-2002 on one CD. Windows or Mac

2003-2005 Journal on CD-ROM
  

2003-2005 Supplement
36 Issues from 2003-2005 on one CD. Windows or Mac. Searchable by author, article and issue, or use Adobe Reader software (included) for keyword search.

Apprentice Training Manual
A Checkoff Training Guide to Becoming a Competent Piano Technician
Randy Potter, RPT   

This book was written by Randy to help piano technicians (and particularly students of his school) to chart their path to becoming a competent tuner-technician. It is includes several hundred items, and has spaces to check off and date when the skill or technique has been learned at both a student (Apprentice / Associate) level or craftsman (Registered Piano Technician) level.

College Institutional Guidelines
PTG Publication
College and University Technicians Committee   

Meet the unique challenge of servicing large inventories with this helpful reference for technicians and administrators.

Field Estimate Guide
Newton Hunt, RPT   

Take the guesswork out of estimating repair time for everything from actions to whippens. Easy to use pocket guide. 18 pages.

G Piano Works Repair Labor Guide
Joseph A. Garrett, RPT   

This book is to piano technology what Chilton's Automobile Flat Rate Repair Manual is to the automobile service industry. Piano technicians and piano factories all over the world have, and use, this book to help them determine fair charges for the many services they offer. Included are over 400 service items, each with hourly times (given to 1/10th hour increments) for vertical, drop action, grand, square grand and birdcage (overdamper) pianos. If you do piano service - you need this book.

Player Piano
The history of the mechanical piano and how to repair it
Arthur W. J. G Ord-Hume   1970

Player Piano Mechanisms
Being a treatise on the design and construction of the pneumatic action of the player-pian
William Braid White   1925

Player Piano
Servicing and Rebuilding
Arthur A. Reblitz, RPT   1985

This book is a comprehensive, illustrated guide to the repair and restoration of paper roll operated, suction powered player pianos and piano playing mechanisms.

Re-enacting the Artist
A story of the Ampico reproducing piano
Larry Givens   1970

Regulation and Repair of Piano and Player Mechanism
Together with Tuning as Science and Art
William Braid White   1909

Guide to Field Repairs
Stephen Brady, RPT   

This handy guide covers the skills needed to do the average day-to-day repairs that technicians face. Newcomers and veterans alike will find it useful. 82 pages.

A Guide to Restringing
John W. Travis, RPT   1982

How to do a professional restringing job. Well illustrated. Contains over 350 separate string scales for pianos.

The Piano Action Handbook
Randy Potter, RPT   

Contains manufacturer action regulation dimensions for all pianos marketed in North America. Also includes many dimensions for instruments no longer in production and manufacturer contact information. 63 pages.

Piano action regulating
Brian Capleton PhD   2007

Covers regulating for the BTEC Advanced Diploma in Piano Action Regulating taught at the Royal National College

Piano Action Repairs and Maintenance
K. T. Kennedy   1979

Piano Bridge Repair Made Easy
Tips and Procedures Video
Willard Leverett, RPT   

This video shows close-up views of three actual bridge repairs performed on real pianos. It includes Essential Tools and Materials, Hazards to Avoid, Repairable and Non-Repairable Bridges, and a special bonus section String Splicing Made Easy.

Piano Parts and Their Functions
Complied by Merle Mason, RPT; Illustrated by James E. Campbell   

This illustrated buide includes diagrams and descriptions of grands and vertical parts and their functions. 98 pages.

Piano Repair
Tips and Procedures Video
Willard Leverett, RPT   

Piano technicians at all levels, from beginner to Registered Piano Technicians, will learn from this 50-minute video, which shows close-up views of repair procedures along with simple Do-It-Yourself tools to make it easy. Here is a partial list of the 38 tips and tools presented in this book: Key Repair, Keytop Replacement, Damper Repair, Splicing Strings, Tools for Restringing, Felt Cutting, Music Desk Repair, Soundboard Shimming Tool, Grand Piano Pedal Bushing, Agraffe Replacement, Bench Repair, Climate Control Systems, and even includes information on Drop Shipping Sales to clients and Simplified Employee Pensions for small shops with only a few employees.

Piano Servicing, Tuning, and Rebuilding
Second Edition: for the Professional, the Student, and the Hobbyist
Arthur Reblitz, RPT   1993

The "Bible" for learning about the piano technician trade. A very comprehensive volume covering all the basic skills needed for a beginning piano technician. A "must have".

The Piano Tuners Pocket Companion
Oliver C. Faust   1982

A historical book on grand and upright actions, giving faults and how to correct them. Also contains theory on tuning.

Vertical Regulation Curriculum Workbook
Laroy Edwards, RPT   

Designed as a workbook for a class in vertical piano regulation, this book also offers handy information for the individual technician. 136 pages.

Aural Piano Tuning
Rick Butler   2005

This publication will appeal to those preparing to take their exams in the Piano Technicians Guild, and those who are just beginning to learn this profession.

Complete Course in Professional Piano Tuning, Repair, and Rebuilding
Floyd Stevens, RPT   2001

Construction tuning and care of the Piano-Forte
a book for Tuners, Dealers, Teachers and Owners of Pianos and Organs
Edward Quincy Norton   1887

Different Strokes
Ken Burton, RPT   

"For most of the 20-plus years I have been tuning, no one was willing to talk about, let alone write about, the many various ways we maneuver the tuning pin in order to set it, and the string, in a stable position. CONGRATULATIONS for your excellent handling of the subject."

First Steps in Piano Tuning
L.M. Nalder   1939

Various details of piano tuning. Based on A-435 pitch. One of the early books on piano tuning. Not easily available.

Let`s Tune Up
John W. Travis, RPT   1974

Written by an outstanding RPT as a aid to learning the art of tuning. A very complete reference book.

Modern Piano Tuning and the Allied Arts
William Braid White   2001

Newer Reprint of the older book.

New Techniques for Superior Aural Tuning
Virgil Smith, RPT   2005

Innovative new techniques for tuning the old fashioned way. Even with electronic equipment available, good aural skills are critical to a good tuning.

Piano Tuning
A Simple and Accurate Method for Amateurs
J. Cree Fischer   1975

A simple approach to tuning for beginners.

Piano Tuning and the Allied Arts
William Braid White   1946

The classic old time book about tuning and basic piano repair and service. This was the Bible of piano tuning for many years.

Piano Tuning for Beginners
Dennis Kurk, RPT   1993

A small book for beginners covering the basics of piano tuning.

Professional Piano Tuning
Walter Dean Howell   1966

Scientific Piano Tuning and Servicing
Alfred H. Howe   1941

One of the earlier books about aural tuning and piano service.

The Seventh Dragaon
The Riddle of Equal Temperament
Anita T. Sullivan   2005

A veteran piano tuner presents a non-technical, literary view of the quixotic tuning system used on keyboard instruments for hundreds of years. Winner of the Western States Book Award for creative non-fiction in 1986, newly updated with illustrations, index, bibliography.

Theory and practice of piano tuning
Brian Capleton PhD   2007

Theory and practice of piano tuning covers all aspects of the theory, practice and "philosophy" of piano tuning from elementary to advanced level. This text book is not just for piano tuners, but for all readers including those with an interdisciplinary academic interest in the subject.

Under the Lid
The Art & Craft of the Concert Piano Technician
Stephen H. Brady, RPT   2008

Covers Concert Prep, Tuning, Voicing, Regulation, Tone Regulating, and many special subjects such as arranging pianos on stage and tuning mulitple pianos together.