I was on my way to a piano tuning job in Rotherham this morning and passed the Wentworth House. I wondered how great it would be have been to have tuned pianos there in its day, how a piano tuner would’ve had to walk there without the chance of getting a bus or car. Now I’m back in my native Sheffield where there is always plenty of jobs a piano tuner can walk to.

Back in Sheffield, I received a new piano tuning lever (a Konig & Meyer 16700-000), in the post that allows me to tune smaller pins with more control. I only had 2 sized piano tuning levers before which made tuning smaller pins on the piano more difficult yet not impossibe, but I can now tune 5.8 mm pins more easily! Every piano tuner needs a good set of piano tuning levers and I can now say I’m now fully equipped for the job. If your piano has 5.8 mm sized pins (I don’t expect you to know that), then expect a good 20 minutes cut off your next piano tuning.

– Richard, piano tuner Sheffield