Piano Tuning Fee

My Price for basic tuning

A basic tuning fee ranges from $105 to $140. Although a basic tuning usually only takes 45 to 90 minutes, I recommend reserving two hours for complete service. Please read the following for more insight.

Regarding Piano Tuning, Quality Is The Best Economy!

Customers pay thousands of dollars for their instruments and to gamble on the care of such an instrument just to avoid a small difference in tuning cost seems an unnecessary gamble.

Similar to other businesses, piano tuners receive phone calls from potential customers shopping for the cheapest price. I fear they do not recognize the enormous differences among piano tuners. While everyone enjoys a bargain, the care of your piano should only be trusted to a qualified professional and the piano tuning fee should not be the determining factor in choosing your piano tuner.

For many, there are three issues that influence customer’s opinion and judgment about a tuner’s service.

1. The opinion of the person who recommended the piano tuner.
2. The personality and presentation of the piano tuner.
3. The price ~ fee ~ cost of service ~ and charges of the piano tuner.

In regards to price, if a piano tuner / technician’s price is low, many reasons to themselves; “If he is so good why are his prices lower than my last tuner, or lower than Aunt Susie’s tuner?”

Piano Tuning ~ There Is A Difference!

The bargain-basement tuner, believing customers have a hard time distinguishing one level of piano service from another, adopts an attitude of, “Why should I spend time, money and effort improving my piano tuning and servicing skills when customers can not tell the difference anyway?”

More often than not, the bargain-basement tuner underestimates his customers; customers can and do notice the difference.

Not only is that attitude unethical, but the bargain-basement tuner seems totally unaware of the “WOW” factor. When an exceptional high quality technician services a piano after following a bargain tuner and the customer sits down to play, many times the pianist responds with; “WOW, what a difference!” When given the opportunity to compare high quality piano tuning with poor quality piano tuning the pianist can distinguish the difference.