MUSKEGON — Imagine a very young Nick Pool — precocious, talented, infinitely musical — growing up in a household in which the piano was perpetually out of tune. “That damn piano was always a halftone ...

[JanHerman] knows that tuning musical instruments is all about precision and that precision is measured in a logarithmic unit called a cent. A cheap tuner unit might be accurate to 1.5 cents which ...

A note about piano tuners: They often are not in accord. Tuners can’t agree whether their ranks resonate with talent or reek of the tone-deaf. A professional guild sets the bar for training, but most ...

For more than a quarter-century, Tim Watts has helped area musicians create beautiful music. Watts is not a music teacher, accompanist or even a soloist. He is a piano tuner who has been working his ...

What does this business do? “Repairs, tunes, inspects and cleans pianos.” How did you get into this field? “My friend Zack LaMonte, an Elgin native who recently moved to Fort Wayne, Indiana, was an ...