Brian Bailey tunes a piano. He's been aurally tuning the instruments for the past 37 years and says there's been decreased need for his services because so many people have switched to digital pianos.

“When the electronic keyboards came out, I think a lot of us old piano tuners were wondering if it was going to hurt our business,” said Larry Lohnes, who has been tuning pianos for more than three ...

He didn’t play piano, but 15-year-old Joey Aikens had an ear for perfect pitch. When a family friend gave him a small console piano, he could hear it was out of tune. A hands-on kid who took his ...

If you want perfect pitch in your voice, you have to be born with it, but luckily, if you want it in your piano, there’s someone who can give it to you. They’re called piano tuners or piano ...

Like blacksmithing and letter writing, the profession of piano tuner has been added to the list of dying arts. The average American piano tuner is between 55 and 60 years old. Seattle’s 70-year-old ...

Using software to tune a piano: Two physicists from the University of Würzburg are making this happen. They have made their tool "Entropy Piano Tuner" available for free download on the Internet.