My name is Justin Hill and I am the independent owner and operator of Tuneworks Piano Service. I am an active Registered Piano Technician of the Piano Technicians Guild. My goal is to bring life back into your piano for everyone to enjoy.
I have been a pianist for eighteen years, and a vocalist for around ten. Having grown up in church my entire life, the genre I am most focused on is either the contemporary Christian style or traditional hymns. Although I do not play the piano much anymore, because most of my time is spent working on pianos for others, I feel like this is a true passion of mine. It is a great feeling when I am called upon to come tune someone's old, family piano, and once I am finished, they are absolutely thrilled to have a playable instrument again.
Many people have asked me why I wanted to become a piano technician, and here is what I tell them. I can remember watching the piano tuner from a young age, around eight, I believe, and I was just fascinated watching him work; all of the different tools he used and how the process was executed. As the years went by, I eventually enrolled and completed an online study course in Piano Tuning and Repair offered by the Piano Technician Academy. I have taken this course twice now; once in 2012, and again in 2016 as a refresher. I enjoyed the course and all it had to offer. I can remember the day my tool kit arrived in the mail. It was like Christmas in July. I would say that most of what I know now, (verses when I first got started) is not because of the online course, but because I joined the Piano Technicians Guild in 2017 and have had many opportunities to attend monthly meetings, and also to experience the National Convention. I have recently received formal hands-on training from the North Bennett Street School in Boston Massachusetts and graduated from both the Basic and the Advanced Piano Technology programs.
As you hopefully noticed, on the home page of my site, I am a Registered Piano Technician in the Piano Technicians Guild. What is a Registered Piano Technician (RPT)? My para-phrased version is this: An RPT is a piano technician that has achieved a professional standard in the aspects of tuning, repairing, and regulation of pianos. To become an RPT, a person must pass a series of rigorous exams with a score of at least 80%. These exams deal with professional level tuning of a piano, as well as various repair and regulatory techniques. An RPT is very well qualified to service any piano. Follow this link to read more on the subject:
http://www.ptg.org/scripts/4disapi.dll/4DCGI/cms/review.html?Action=CMS_Document&DocID=121&MenuKey=Menu27
Ever since I began watching the piano tuner all those years ago, I have had a love for the inner workings and all of the different parts of a piano and fixing them so they all work together like they should. A modern grand piano has about 9,500 parts that all have to work together seamlessly to produce the playable musical instrument that we all know and love. Being a piano technician is definitely not an easy field of work, but with the right mindset and willingness to learn, anything is possible.
I have been a pianist for eighteen years, and a vocalist for around ten. Having grown up in church my entire life, the genre I am most focused on is either the contemporary Christian style or traditional hymns. Although I do not play the piano much anymore, because most of my time is spent working on pianos for others, I feel like this is a true passion of mine. It is a great feeling when I am called upon to come tune someone's old, family piano, and once I am finished, they are absolutely thrilled to have a playable instrument again.
Many people have asked me why I wanted to become a piano technician, and here is what I tell them. I can remember watching the piano tuner from a young age, around eight, I believe, and I was just fascinated watching him work; all of the different tools he used and how the process was executed. As the years went by, I eventually enrolled and completed an online study course in Piano Tuning and Repair offered by the Piano Technician Academy. I have taken this course twice now; once in 2012, and again in 2016 as a refresher. I enjoyed the course and all it had to offer. I can remember the day my tool kit arrived in the mail. It was like Christmas in July. I would say that most of what I know now, (verses when I first got started) is not because of the online course, but because I joined the Piano Technicians Guild in 2017 and have had many opportunities to attend monthly meetings, and also to experience the National Convention. I have recently received formal hands-on training from the North Bennett Street School in Boston Massachusetts and graduated from both the Basic and the Advanced Piano Technology programs.
As you hopefully noticed, on the home page of my site, I am a Registered Piano Technician in the Piano Technicians Guild. What is a Registered Piano Technician (RPT)? My para-phrased version is this: An RPT is a piano technician that has achieved a professional standard in the aspects of tuning, repairing, and regulation of pianos. To become an RPT, a person must pass a series of rigorous exams with a score of at least 80%. These exams deal with professional level tuning of a piano, as well as various repair and regulatory techniques. An RPT is very well qualified to service any piano. Follow this link to read more on the subject:
http://www.ptg.org/scripts/4disapi.dll/4DCGI/cms/review.html?Action=CMS_Document&DocID=121&MenuKey=Menu27
Ever since I began watching the piano tuner all those years ago, I have had a love for the inner workings and all of the different parts of a piano and fixing them so they all work together like they should. A modern grand piano has about 9,500 parts that all have to work together seamlessly to produce the playable musical instrument that we all know and love. Being a piano technician is definitely not an easy field of work, but with the right mindset and willingness to learn, anything is possible.