PTG Chapter Sites
National office of the Piano Technicians Guild: http://www.ptg.org
Seattle Chapter of the Piano Technicians Guild: http://users.iglide.net/dpetrich
Canadian Piano Page: http://www.canadianpianopage.com
Piano Stores and Dealers
Classical Grands http://www.classicalgrands.com
Fandrich Pianos: www.fandrich.com
Here's a store I haven't been to: http://www.secondhandpianos.net
New Italian upright with the touch of a grand: http://www.cerratopianoforti.com
Shopping for pianos? http://www.chicagopianos.com/wantedposter.htm
Ads and Advertising
List yourself in a new national directory: http://www.pianofinders.com/technicians/locatetech.htm
Place an ad on this site: http://www.piano-classifieds.com
Connecting people and pianos around the world: http://www.pianofinders.com
Karen E. Lile
Historical Temperaments
Lehman: U.Mich professor Bradley Lehman offers here a keyboard
temperament analyzer/calculator, along with cogent explanations of
the need for temperament.
Temperament Offsets:
Researched by Willis Miller for Avery Todd, an exhaustive list of offsets
for historical temperaments.
All About
Temperaments: Excellent introduction to historic temperaments.
J.S.
Bach Tuning: detailed scholarly attempt to determine how Bach tuned
his instruments.
The Well-Tempered
Clavier: Fictional, entertaining and instructive account of all the
Preludes and Fugues.
Music History
timeline
I have a website devoted to historic temperaments, taking Jorgensen
and making the tunings graphically understandable, with a lot of modern
well temperaments also. This site is being accessed by a lot of Verituner
users, and it would probably be a good addition. Jason Kanter: jkanter@rollingball.com
also jason.kanter@wamu.net in my day job
http://www.rollingball.com
Tools and Supplies
HobbyLinc CA Glue:
Good source for CA glue for loose tuning pins.
www.pianosupply.com/: International
Piano Supply, in Astoria, OR.
Pianotek Tools
Spurlock Specialty
Tools Bill Spurlock: SpurlockTool@cs.com
Mother Goose Tools
Pianoforte Supply
House: located in B.C.
Balaams-Ass,
piano supplies catalog based in Tennessee
Renner USA
site map
Renner
Tool Catalog
Pianophile: Canadian distributor
of piano tools, parts and supplies.
Arledge Music Wire: for
ordering piano bass string replacements.
Two unusual lubricant sources: www.syn-lubes.com
and Nyelubricants
Ingenious piano lifting device: http://www.televateur.com
Piano-Related Software
Pscale and other computer tools
for piano technicians. Calculate touchweight, stringing scales, and more.
www.oppor-tune-ist.com
for ScaleMaster, which Joe Garrett praises
Accu-tuner: Sanderson's homepage
Of Technical Interest
Piano Serial
Numbers 1: The "Blue Book of Pianos" -- serial numbers and manufacturing
dates. Not very up-to-date, and somewhat inaccurate in Steinways.
Cents
to Hz Chart: Online calculator of frequencies and cents offsets.
5
piano acoustics lectures. The five lectures describe the underlying
physics upon which all detailed modeling of piano tones must be based.
Extraordinarily useful.
Piano Technology
Practice Exams: Online multiple choice tests in piano technology.
TuneLab_Users:
Yahoo group for users of Bob Scott's TuneLab
Digital Piano Shootout:
Excellent sound samples of MANY digital pianos. The one called "The Holy
Grail Grand Piano" is tuned to Paul Bailey's well temperament.
The pianotech Archives:
look up anything in the pianotech discussion history.
piano
FAQ: A collection of information gathered from rec.music.makers.piano
about purchasing and maintaining pianos.
Piano on the Net: Online piano
lessons!
Sunhawk: Sheet music store
Tuning by Jorgensen:
Summary of the contentsof Jorgensen's "big red" tome.
Converts pianos into desks: http://www.pianodesk.com/index2.htm
David Stanwood's Touch Weight Calculator at: http://www.stanwoodpiano.com/Calculator.htm
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