Anthony Willey began tuning pianos in 2001 with a tuning lever and fork, some mutes, a book, and a lesson from Don Findlay, the family piano tuner. Beginning in 2006 he underwent 4 years of training at the Brigham Young University piano shop under Keith Kopp and James Busby. Anthony went on to pass the Piano Technicians Guild tuning and technical certification examinations himself, becoming a Registered Piano Technician with the Piano Technicians Guild. Although Anthony began—and passed the PTG tuning exam—as an aural tuner, he now tunes using a combination of professional piano tuning software and aural checks.
Anthony earned a Masters degree in physics from Brigham Young University, and has 25 years of experience as a classical musician, playing and teaching multiple instruments including the string bass, violin and piano. He also designed and built a fully functional harpsichord.
In 2013 Anthony and his wife moved to Seattle; they currently live in Renton with their two children.
Anthony is a physics geek and part-time inventor whose most recent project was to develop a piano tuning app for Android called PianoMeter that can be used by professionals and hobbyists to tune pianos to a professional standard.
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Tuning: A full tuning includes everything needed to get a piano in tune and working, which may include a "pitch raise" and/or minor repairs, such as fixing sticky keys, misaligned hammers, and annoying buzzes.
Regulation: Making sure the parts of the piano work together properly. This will improve the feel of the piano, increase control and response, and eliminate problems like double-hitting hammers, non-working dampers, sticking keys, etc.
Repairs: This can involve fixing or replacing anything that is broken or missing, including key ivories, pedals, screws, hammers, strings, keys, action parts, hinges, knobs, etc.
Refurbishment: Includes replacing old worn felt, replacing hinge pins for hammers and action parts, replacing hammers or dampers, installing new keytops, restringing, etc.
Voicing: Modifying a piano's hammers to achieve a better tone (often via softening the felt or reshaping the hammers).