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Biography

I began my training for this profession in 1977 and completed the college course at Newark in 1980 with the City & Guilds diploma. 

At the beginning of my career, I worked for a couple of years in Sheffield before moving to Nottingham where I applied for a job in a Department Store – well, 2 jobs really as they were advertising for a salesman and tuner but I fulfilled both although the selling side was fairly new to me.  I didn’t receive 2 salaries..  It was a great way to mix with new instruments as up until then I’d only ever tuned older pianos.  Through the parent company (Chas. Foulds & Son of Derby) I met trade suppliers and went on a couple of factory visits, the most interesting one up to June 2007 was to the Fazer factory in Helsinki, a very modern factory producing a range of upright pianos.  This June (2007) I went to the Fazioli factory in Sacile in Italy which is a revelation in small-scale grand piano production (100 units per year).

I applied for Membership of the PTA in 1987 and passed the examination and within quite a short space of time I was elected onto the Executive Council.  I have held the post of Tuning Test Co-ordinator for the north of England and have done Test Examining as well.

I organised many trips and visits for the PTA during the 1990’s but a lot of manufacturing has now ceased or gone abroad.  For a long period my responsibilities to the PTA have been in maintaining the ‘PList’ – a discussion forum for our tuners which is often very lively.  I also do the liaising between the Council and the PTA’s website designer who is one of my customers in Derbyshire.

tenor break (agraffes) close up of wrest pins and lever fly damper on bichords

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