Custom-made tuning
to your make & model of piano.
Custom-made tuning increases the longevity
of your tunings and the longevity of your piano.
Servicing Southeastern Massachusetts & Beyond.
TUNING
First-time Tuning
Fees can be discussed and agreed upon according to the needs of the individual clients. Tuning fees (Usually approximately 2 hours of meticulously and digitally loosening or tightening 230-245 strings) are in accordance with the general condition of the piano and is also dependent upon when the last tuning was and how regularly it’s been tuned.
Includes:
- Diagnostic Service
- Custom tuning to your make & model. Custom-made tuning increases the longevity of your tunings and the longevity of your piano.
- Minor repairs (pedal adjustments, sticking keys, etc.)
- Major Repairs – Negotiable
Tunings are done both aurally and with the use of the highly sophisticated and accurate ‘Anderson Accutuning Digital Computer’ which can digitally pinpoint accuracy to one hundredth of one cent.
(One cent meaning the difference of one hundredth of a per cent so that means between A=440 FCPS [frequency cycles per second] and A=441 – is cut into one hundred degrees.) – HIGHEST ACCURACY. A custom made ‘temperament’ (Meaning the bottom registers and harmonies coincide, with highest accuracy, to the pitches and harmonies in all of the top registers aka; ‘equal temperament’) is also included in the tunings.
Diagnostic Service Alone
50% of it will be put toward any subsequent work done on the piano.
- On-site diagnosis of the condition of your piano
- Recommendations for repair and tuning
- Estimate of all work and parts needed
ABOUT CLAUDE
I’m a registered piano tuner/technician with 25 years of professional experience educated in music performance and education from the University of Toronto (BA-1980), Zurich Conservatory of Music (Artists Diploma of Distinction-1981), Yale University (MA – Suma Cum Laude -1993).
I am a retired Professor of Music (13 years/27 semesters) from the University of Massachusetts/Dartmouth, am the son of Dr. Josef Cobert, former chairperson, music director and conductor at the University of Massachusetts/Dartmouth (UMD), Conductor Laureate and Founder of the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra and Jacqueline Bazinet Cobert – Internationally celebrated soprano and Professor/Opera Director at UMD.
I have tuned and continue to tune throughout the entire Southeastern and Central Massachusetts areas, and have tuned for such world class soloists as Yefim Bronfman, Lily Dumont, Boris Goldovsky, Bertica Cramer, Janice Weber, John Harrison and Matt Richard. Trained by the Randy Potter School of Piano Technology in Boulder, CO, I use both digital and tuning by ear techniques.
I am also a professional pianist with 35 years of performing experience and a Master of Music graduate of Yale University.
