To any musos who are reading, I’m starting to upload videos of me improvising over backing tracks on guitar. Growing up I was more of a metal, blues, classical and classic rock guy, but over the last few years I’ve been listening to a lot of jazz (mainly light/smooth jazz and  fusion artists such as Jonas Hellborg, Shawn Lane, and Jean-Luc Ponty) and incorporating some of that style into my playing. If you’re a pianist (you might even be a piano tuning customer of mine!) and would like a jam, as long as you’re in Sheffield or nearby, I’m usually free in the evenings!

I also play the piano and the drums just as much as guitar, but I’m not as proficient on those instruments (I’ve played guitar a lot longer; I started when I was 9).

On the piano tuning front, I was busy in December 2015 but it died down a bit around Christmas and New Year, as expected. If you would like to book a piano tuning now would be a very good time as I’ve got a lot of free spaces available in my diary, and I won’t be leaving Sheffield for the next month or two (as I’ve mentioned before, I often go to Robin Hood’s Bay on weekends and sometimes tune pianos in the Whitby and Scarborough area).

– Richard, Piano Tuner Sheffield