Although most of my piano tuning customers are from Sheffield, occasionally I make a trip to Doncaster, Rotherham, Barnsley or another part of South Yorkshire to tune or repair a piano. As a piano tuner I have no problem travelling to tune pianos in other as long as its within driving distance from Sheffield. Yesterday a Doncaster customer asked me about pitch raising the piano before the piano tuning. I have to remind people that as long as they aren’t playing the piano in an ensemble then sometimes it is safter to keep the piano below concert pitch rather than tuning it to A440 every time. It’s the choice of the piano tuning customer whether they want the piano tuner to do this, but raising the pitch adds the risk of it being a less stable tuning than tuning the piano to itself.

– Richard, Piano Tuner Sheffield