On a personal level, understanding the needs and preferences of the person who is playing the piano is very important to me. This can seem like shyness or awkwardness on my part, but sometimes it is just me trying to figure the meaning of what you may be saying to me at the moment. However, social nuance, metaphors, and words with multiple meanings are common communication cues that are difficult for me to understand. I say what I mean, and being honest and accurate are very important to me. I would love to explain this in person, but finding the right words in real-time conversation is difficult for me. I expect to actively enrich my skill in piano technology for the rest of my life. I am also trained to service Dampp-Chaser Piano Life Saver Systems, an automated humidity control system for pianos. (Regulation is the proper adjustment of about 2200 moving parts responsible for striking the strings in just the right way to produce the quality piano sound and experience). I am proficient with regulation adjustments of vertical and grand pianos. My specialties include tuning and pitch adjustment, and general action and string repairs of all piano styles. I am a registered piano technician and a full member of the National Piano Technicians Guild. I continue my learning experience at the Reeder Piano Restoration Center in Lansing, Michigan. I have since received additional advanced training hosted at Montana State University. In 2010, I graduated from a piano technology school. What many thought would be an 11-year-old boy’s short-lived preoccupation with the inside of pianos has blossomed into my own small-business servicing customers in West Michigan. I have always had a fascination for music and the mechanical workings of pianos. I had my first piano lessons at 10, but I was more curious about how the insides worked. Tuning by Tony is a piano tuning and repair service owned and operated by me, Tony Rodriguez.
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