Video, Well Temperament
Carl Radford
A Conversation with Piano Technician Carl ...

Piano Technician and Pianist, Carl Radford, is interviewed about how he got into piano tuning, making videos on historical tunings, and Lucky the Wonder Piano.

A Conversation with Piano Technician Carl Radford
Well Temperament, Video
Carl Radford
Bach C Major Prelude in the Classical Tuning

Carl Radford describes the type of classical well tempered tuning used in this demonstration, and how it differs from the modern tuning, and then performs Bach’s C Major Prelude with the piano tuned in the classical tuning.

Bach C Major Prelude in the Classical Tuning
Articles, Dampp-Chaser, Piano Life Saver
Carl Radford
Zen and the Art of Dampp-Chaser Installation

I was tuning in a recording studio, when I received an email asking for a bid for the installation of humidity systems for all the 54 pianos in the music department at a major University during their Spring Break.

Zen and the Art of Dampp-Chaser Installation
Articles, Inspiration
Carl Radford
Mike

That’s Mike. Overwhelmingly positive, and not about to hang around, even for a second, with anyone who isn’t. But Mike wasn’t always that way.

Mike
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Tuning Repertoire

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Below is a menu of some of the types of tunings I have available for my clients upon request. I have tried to list the characteristics of each tuning, and how it might be used in the musical literature, so that if you should decide to choose one for your piano, you may do so knowing better what to expect, or knowing better what to request from your piano technician.

There is more than one way to tune a modern piano. In fact, the possibilities are limitless. And yet in this century only one tuning, Standard 20th Century Equal Temperament, has dominated almost all Western music.