

If you can't hear beats clearly and easily, you can't tune pianos by ear to any decent level at all. And not just hear them, but hear them clearly and easily and consistently. system and virtually ever other aural piano tuning system, you need to be able to hear beats.

System, as well as many other traditional aural piano tuning methods, has a very strong emphasis on beat rates. We only need to tell down to 3% and everyone is born with this ability.) and the things that we need to start working on right now!

In order to be as efficient a teacher as possible, he also asked the question, "What do people really need to know to be able to tune pianos to a high level by ear?" (He has already answered the question, "Are ETDs better than the trained ear at tuning pianos?" The answer in NO!)īy doing research and gathering data using studies, he found out what things we don't need to work on, (Being able to identify small differences in beat speeds. Aural Piano Tuning System to help people get more Accurate, Precise, and Efficient aural piano tunings. To solve the method problem, he had to use his engineering background to ask the question, "What about traditional piano tuning instruction is wrong?" He did that and developed the Go A.P.E. If he was going to help people make the transformation from complete beginner to competent and confident piano technician, he needed to solve this problem. Right away he discovered his own weaknesses as a teacher but also the weaknesses of the traditional methods being taught. In 2000, Mark Cerisano bought his first piano tuning hammer and went to work tuning an old piano he bought for his 80 year old mother using a Korg tuner with no stretch and pencil erasers for mutes!Īt the time he had already had a short career as a mechanical engineer and was starting a new career as a high school music teacher, having just finished five years of playing jazz trumpet on Carnival and Holland America Cruise Lines.įive years later he became a Registered Piano Technician with the Piano Technicians Guild and began teaching others what he knew about piano tuning.
