The art of tuning
Subtitle: a self-guided manual for piano tuning, design, action regulation, and repair from mid-19th-century France : for the piano owner and technician, with guidelines for training people who are blind and visually impaired
By: Claude Montal ; translated by Fred Sturm
Contributors: Sturm, Fred S., translator
Publisher: Piano Technicians Guild Foundation
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Kansas City, KS
Language: eng
Number of pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9780986185106
Subjects: Piano; Maintenance and repair; Tuning; Construction
Work titles: Art d'accorder soi-même son piano
Notes: Translation of L'art d'accorder soi-même son piano.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Summary of the elementary principles of music needed in order to understand this book; title: A succinct account of harmony; title: Pianos of diverse shapes; the principal interior parts; title: The layout and labeling of the tuning pins, and their correspondence to the keys of the keyboard; title: Tuning wrench, mute, tuning fork, and how to use them; title: Piano to use in studying tuning; title: Exercises to learn how to use the tuning wrench and to train the ear, in tuning just consonances and the perfect major chord; title: Temperament, and perfect major chords suitably tempered; title: Partition and counter-partition; title: Tuning of the treble, of the bass, and general verification of tuning; title: Partition and counter-partition from C; title: Piano strings, how to replace them, and the tools necessary for this operation; title: How to touch up a piano without tuning it completely; title: The influence of temperature on piano strings, and precautions to take when raising or lowering pitch one or many semitones; title: Tuning several pianos together, and tuning a piano to other instruments; title: Pianos of different shapes and particular designs; how to tune them and replace strings; title: The qualities of a good piano; title: Solidity of a piano, and tuning stability; title: How to care for a piano so that it will last, and how to pack one for moving; title: How to repair the principal problems that can arise in the actin when a maker craftsman is not available; title: Blind tuners: teaching their profession; title: Acoustics; title: Appendix A: Appendix from the 1865 edition; title: Appendix B: Chapter 12 from the 1836 edition; title: Appendix C: Chapter 16 from the 1836 edition; title: Appendix D: Chapter 20 from the 1836 edition; title: Appendix E: History of the piano and of the keyboard instruments that preceded it.