For more than a quarter-century, Tim Watts has helped area musicians create beautiful music. Watts is not a music teacher, accompanist or even a soloist. He is a piano tuner who has been working his ...

WILLMAR - If a pianist has a wonderful concert, longtime piano tuner Dennis Benson of Willmar can take some of the credit. His job is to make the piano sound perfect. But he doesn’t always know if ...

How she got the job: "I moved back to Savannah after graduating from college with degrees in Spanish and philosophy - very interesting, but completely useless as a career. I had always been drawn to ...

Sy Zabrocki was introduced to a tuning fork through one of those correspondence courses found in the back of Popular Science magazine. But the course was lacking. "It was a sham," he said. "It did not ...

JON C. LAKEY / SALISBURY POST Roy West plays a chord on the keys, listens to the sound and makes adjustments on the strings. West, 80, has spent a life time tuning pianos. West does contract work ...

One Waco piano tuner is taking a different approach to today’s widespread use of electronics in the tuning process. While the trend is to correct the instruments with electronic devices, he works his ...

Michael Blackwell pays regular calls on a wide circle of musical Santa Feans who depend on him to keep their pianos tuned and well regulated. But they know better than to try to schedule an ...

In 1966, when Tom McNeil, a sophomore at Michigan State University, enrolled in a course on piano tuning, he had no clue piano tuning and repair would become a crucial part of his life story. McNeil, ...