Piano Tuning Technician (New Zealand Certificate in Piano Tuning and Technology, Level 4)
Performing
A course by
Let's Go Music
Train to become a professional acoustic piano tuner-technician, able to tune, repair, regulate, and rebuild pianos and operate a piano repair and maintenance business.
NZ$39,848
inc GST
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Core skills this course teaches
Tune, repair, regulate, and rebuild pianos
Develop the technical and practical skills necessary to maintain, repair, and rebuild upright and grand pianos to industry standards.
Operate a piano repair and maintenance business
Learn the business, customer service, and professional skills essential for running a piano tuning and repair business.
About This Course
This comprehensive, three-year programme prepares graduates for work as safe, competent, and professional acoustic piano tuner-technicians. Courses cover the repair, rebuilding, tuning, regulation, and maintenance of upright and grand pianos, including history, acoustics, business, and customer service skills. The programme involves significant practical and placement components, with applied learning in workshops or industry placements. Graduates will be ready to operate their own piano repair business or work within the music industry.
Course Content
- History and development of the piano
- Safe and professional work practice
- Piano parts and terminology
- Tuning hammer fundamentals
- Technique and pitch control
- Piano acoustics and tuning theory
- Tuning unisons and octaves
- Temperament and stability
- Regulating upright and grand pianos
- Piano repair fundamentals
- Applied piano tuning
- Woodshop skills for piano technicians
- Business skills and obligations under Te Tiriti
- Restringing and repinning techniques
- Voicing and tone regulation
- Player, digital and hybrid pianos
- Work placements with mentors in industry
Entry Requirements
Good aural perception
Build towards these roles
Piano tuner-technicianSelf-employed piano repair technicianTechnician roles in music retail or instrument servicing
Build skills in these industries
Music industryMusical instrument technologySmall business
Let's Go Music is for people who have always taken music seriously, even if life has not always made it easy to act on. Their fully online programmes are NZQA-accredited and taught by working musicians and industry professionals, so the learning is both flexible and genuinely credible. You get qualifications that count, from tutors who are still active in the field.
