In the summer of 2016, I began installing QRS player systems in grand pianos, a nifty system bringing you back to the old times when pianos could play themselves. In addition to my own business, I had the privilege to work with several piano stores, including My First Piano and Riverton Piano. Over the course of eight years, my business grew across the metro area tuning in homes, churches, and other venues. During that time, I was privileged to work with the former president of the Piano Technicians Guild, Nashville Chapter, to fine-tune my skills.īianchi Piano was born in 2013 in Phoenix, Arizona, focusing on tuning and repairs. I pursued studies as a piano technician and was certified by the American School of Piano Tuning just before my eighteenth birthday. Six months later I acquired my first set of tuning tools. When my parents saw I was serious about it, they surprised me with an upright. After that night, I was determined to conquer the art of playing the piano. He taught us how to play the melody of one of our favorite hymns we sang every week at church. One evening, a good family friend sat on the floor with my sister, me, and a cheap electric keyboard. My musical journey began when I was twelve. ![]() I enjoy hiking, gardening, hot cocoa on a crisp winter day, remodeling homes, woodworking projects, and almost anything Christmas. So, obviously, I thought I have to get it tuned and then it struck me like a voice from a cloud saying, "YOU tune this piano.YOU will do it.Perhaps I was destined to be a piano tuner since my last name is pronounced ‘be-on-key.’ I was playing my (by the way it is a white upright, which you don't see too many of these days) piano and noticing several of the notes were not sounding like they could or should, it seemed to me. Over the course of time I had it tuned quit regularly and it's with one of these times when it needed tuned that I received inspiration to " tune it myself". I bought the next piano "new" (no mileage as they say) this time and learned to play on it pretty-good and so did one of my daughters. Now, in our new home it wasn't long before I decided I wanted another piano besides we had room for it this time. In time me and my family bought another house that was much bigger and my sister wanted the old piano so I gave it to her. That being said, let me now tell you how my business got it's very humble beginning. Needless-to-say, my wife was "not" impressed but the kids and I had a great time learning to play the piano. Once inside it took up so much room that one of the living room chairs had to be taken away. How small you ask? So small that we had to take two doors off the house in order to get it inside. Now, as I said I had a small house at the time. Of course, back then I didn't know a thing about pianos: how to play them, how to tune them or how to tweak the action of them.īut, I did purchase this heavy monster and me and a couple of friends loaded it on a half-ton truck and brought it to my place. ![]() The long and the short of it is that I won the auction and paid something like $400 for a worn out upright piano that was about 100 years old. So, I went to the auction with the intention of out-bidding everyone for that piano. That caught my attention as I had been playing around with the piano at my own Church at the time but was sick of going out of the house every time I wanted to practice. I remember I lived in a wee small house with my wife and our two small children and there was an auction at a local Church and one of the items was a full upright acoustic piano. I was 40 years old when I really got the bug. ![]() I began playing piano about 32 years ago. The above paragraph was necessary to show you how this business began but there is more to it than that. Hello shock!! Others followed, of course, but I had this little business going called Duane's Piano Tuning & Technology that I started in 2013 so off I went to employ myself at that. The third owner moved in and announced ten minutes after I met the man on the very first day that I would be let go or really forced into retirement. That is until the company was sold, not once but twice, in the span of about three years. I could say "what a jail-sentence" but at first it wasn't all that bad. At this factory I was a Foreman (22 years) then a kitchen Cabinet Design Expert (21 years) all for the same firm in my home town of Minto, New Brunswick.Īll tolled that was 43 years straight ahead. I am retired from my job that I held in a factory that manufactured kitchen cabinets and counter-tops. Thank you for taking the time to read this. The next few lines are written so that you may get to know me a little and understand my journey to this point. I am a certified piano TECHNICIAN (2013) and the owner of Duane's Piano Tuning & Technology.
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