Tuning & Maintenance

I offer a comprehensive tuning and maintenance service for functioning historical keyboard instruments and can discuss questions of pitch and temperament to suit individual musical requirements.

~  Specialist tuning of harpsichords, virginals, spinets, clavichords (fretted or un-fretted), square and grand  

     pianofortes.

~  Tuning of historical temperaments, including meantone temperaments, Werckmeister III 1691, Vallotti

     c1730, Kirnberger III 1779, Young 1800 and equal temperament.

~  Specialist maintenance of functioning antique keyboard instruments, including stringing, quilling and

     voicing, action adjustment and regulation.

'...This day, my Tryangle virginall (which was put in

tune yesterday) did please me very well...'

The Diary of Samuel Pepys

18th March 1663.