Would you like to become a professional piano tuner/technician?

Question

Which benefits of this profession can you name?

If you would like to become a professional piano technician, what would you like to hear when you are finished with tuning (please, just answer the question)?

Answer 1

You get spot-on precision knowing when your own piano is out of tune (if you own on).

And you get 90$ a trip to tune a piano :D

Yes, I would like to become a piano tuner someday...Need to learn how to, I hear its easy.

-M♪tt

Answer 2

To the person above: Easy it is not. As a dealer, the hardest thing for us is finding competent people to keep our floor in shape, and feel comportable about recommending to our customers. Try standing over a piano for 2 hours hammering on 88 notes and pulling on those tuning pins. Ear and back fatigue sets in, wild strings drive you crazy, and you have to tune crummy pianos as well as good ones. Each piano make and size has its own tempering patterns, and you have ot know each one.

You must love and respect pianos to do this job well.: A good tuner/tech is an artist.

Benefits?

You get to make your own schedule

Good ones are hard to find, so if you're good, you can make a decent living. (good is defined as someone who can really tune, can "lock in" a tuning, knows how to voice the hammers to the "una corda" pedal as well as general voicing, can regulate an action to the owners taste, track down buzzes and eradicate them, total understading of the mechanics of the instrument)

If you do floor work for a dealer, you can get many referals if they like your work. You live off of referals.

If you get schools and churches on you client list, you will have steady work.

You get to meet some intersting and influential people.

Support of a nationwide professional organization, the American Guild of Piano Technicians http://www.ptg.org/

I myself would not want to do this job -- I have no patience whatsoever for it. Learning to tune a piano well is a long process -- years of training and experience are required.

If this interests you, there are schools you can go to. and then you would want to "apprentice" with a respected and successful tech until you become efficient and proficient.