Piano tuning: artistic and scientific

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Piano Tuning is an art that the technician possesses to bring a piano to it’s beautiful sounding tone and musical moods and colors to the pianist.  The generating of a tone in the piano is achieved by scientifically designed principles of string vibration and wood characteristics that transfer the vibrations to the human ear.

A well designed piano consists of many different factors that are found in the qualities of wood and felt.  Tone quality is directly dependent on quality of materials and workmanship in building a truly special product of musical quality.

Here are 20 piano makes:

1. Steinway & Sons
2. Yamaha
3. Kawai
4. Bösendorfer
5. Bechstein
6. Fazioli
7. Blüthner
8. Schimmel
9. Mason & Hamlin
10. Grotrian
11. Petrof
12. Samick
13. Baldwin
14. Roland
15. Essex
16. Pearl River
17. Young Chang
18. August Förster
19. Sauter
20. Feurich

These are some well-known piano manufacturers with a wide range of models and a reputation for producing quality instruments.

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