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Claude Montal (28 July 1800 – 7 March 1865) was a French piano technician and author who wrote the first comprehensive text on piano tuning and repair, "l'Art d'accorder soi-même son piano..." (The Art of Tuning Your Own Piano Yourself...), published in 1836. He subsequently became a major manufacturer of pianos, with several patented ...
A man tuning an upright piano. Piano tuning is the process of adjusting the tension of the strings of an acoustic piano so that the musical intervals between strings are in tune. The meaning of the term 'in tune', in the context of piano tuning, is not simply a particular fixed set of pitches. Fine piano tuning requires an assessment of the ...
In 1836 French piano tuner, and later manufacturer, Claude Montal described in L'art d'accorder soi-même son piano that Camille Pleyel had introduced improvements to the design of Wornum's small uprights when he introduced the pianino in France in 1830, but although Montal describes the action and flexible tie in detail he did not specify ...
Piano tuners, harp makers and the builders and restorers of early instruments, e.g. harpsichords, use high-end tuners to assist with their tuning and instrument building. Even piano tuners who work mostly "by ear" may use an electronic tuner to tune just a first key on the piano, e. g. the a' to 440 Hz, after which they proceed by means of ...
[4] He first repaired band instruments, then learned the craft of piano tuning from a local tuner, then moved into maintenance and repair of pianos. [3] His curiosity then led him to experiment with pianos, trying "with various kinds of wire and soundboard modifications to learn what he could about things that might affect a piano's sound" (O ...
In 1841 William moved to Worcester, where he worked as a piano tuner and set up a shop selling sheet music and musical instruments. [2] In 1848 he married Ann Greening (1822–1902), daughter of a farm worker. [3] Edward was the fourth of their seven children.
An Érard harp Erard harp mechanism Tuning of Erard harp (using Korg OT-120 Wide 8 Octave Orchestral Digital Tuner). In November 1794 Érard filed the first English patent for a harp (Improvements in Pianofortes and Harps, patent no. 2016), a greatly refined single-action instrument (tuned in E flat) that could be played in eight major and five minor keys thanks to its ingenious fork mechanism ...
Construction, Tuning and Care of the Piano-forte (1887) by Edward Quincy Norton; Regulation and Repair of Piano and Player Mechanism, Together with Tuning as Science and Art (1909) by William Braid White; Modern piano tuning and allied arts (1917) by William Braid White (1878–1959) Biddle, Horace Peters (1867). The Musical Scale. Oliver ...