You shouldn’t have to lack confidence in your ability to aural tune a piano.

An Online Piano Technician Resource

(A collaboration with Gazelle & PianoScope)

Learning aural tuning.

Over 5+ hours of video lessons on mastering the fundamentals of aural tuning!

Presented by:
Timothy Barnes, RPT

Timothy brings over 20 years experience to help you along your journey towards mastery of your aural tuning skills. Timothy’s own journey from ‘ETD only’ to being an aural technician brings a wealth of experience and deep perspective showcasing the need for aural skills in this day and age. His experience also spans working as a piano technician in the field, as a concert technician, being an RPT, and working as a CAUT (College And University Technician). His journey and the knowledge he has to share will inspire you at every step of the way as you learn and practice new skills, seek to master existing skills, and eventually add better aural skills to your toolbox. Setting yourself on a journey towards being an aural technician who is on a path towards mastery of these skills.

19 Lessons & Topics Covered

  • 5 Lessons designed to answer all the questions you will have if you recently picked up a tuning lever for the first time or have limited aural skills as an ETD only technician.

    • What is a beat?

    • What is a harmonic?

    • What is inharmonicity?

    • What are Cents vs. Hz?

    • What is a Temperament?

    By the end of these lessons you will have a working understanding of everything you need to dive into all the topics related to aural tuning.

  • In the first 3 lessons we will cover in depth:

    • Aural partials and harmonics

    • Identifying partials in any note.

    • Identifying coincident partials in any interval.

    By the end of this segment you will see aural tuning in a whole new light, be able to identify and hear harmonics, partials, and coincident partials in any interval.

  • Lessons 4-8 cover in-depth all the things you need to know about:

    • Aurally tuning unisons using harmonics

    • Aurally tuning octaves and their corresponding tests.

    • Aurally tuning 5ths and their corresponding tests.

    • Aurally tuning 4ths and their corresponding tests.

    • Identifying 3rds are beating correctly.

  • In the final 6 lessons we will bring it all together and talk about:

    • Setting A440 to the fork

    • Setting up your temperament

    • Tuning a two octave temperament using slow beating intervals.

    • Tuning a two octave temperament using fast beating intervals.

    • Tuning a one octave temperament.

    • Gaining speed and efficiency in your temperament.

    By the end of this resource you will have all the confidence you need to aurally tune a piano and assess your ability to pass your certification exams from the PTG or other trade groups around the world. And if you are working with a mentor you will find your time with them is more valuable because they will not be teaching you everything from the ground up. Instead you can focus your time on more important higher level skills.

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Learning Aural Tuning

$299

Full Online Resource
All 19 Lessons
5+ hours of videos lessons!

Together in collaboration with Pianoscope:

Beginning in 2022 Gazelle collaborated with Pianoscope which led to the creation of this ‘Learning Aural Tuning’ resource that donates all the proceeds to the PTG Foundation and trade groups around the globe. Wherever you are at in your aural journey Pianoscope will give you the tools to grow your skills as a technician, improve ETD accuracy, and in combination with this resource confidently develop aural skills. With all they have to offer Pianoscope gives you a deep and valuable feature set that is customizable to your needs.

  • Easily and quickly measure the inharmonicity of all the notes on the piano! For a rough tuning it is sufficient to measure only twelve notes which takes about 12 seconds. With poorly scaled pianos, however, it is worthwhile to measure the entire range (which can be quickly done in under 2 minutes). You can use the time gained for extra voicing, regulation, fine-tuning, or other customer needs.

  • Create an integrated aural feedback loop unique to the piano you have in front of you so you can hear and see everything you need to improve your aural skills. Pianoscope will show the relative strengths of each note’s partials which you can visually analyze, for example, in which partials false beats occur and how the spectrum behaves across the piano.

  • Once the tuning curve has been calculated, pianoscope helps you to transfer it to the instrument in any order you like. It automatically detects which notes you are tuning – faster than traditional apps – and gives you intuitive, graphical feedback.

  • With Pianoscope, you get to decide which intervals should be as pure as possible and choose pre-built and customizable tuning styles. With thousands of tests, which would be impossible for a human, the program adapts for the tuning curve that optimally meets your needs.

  • When you strike a key on the piano, Pianoscope reliably detects which note it is and automatically switches to the corresponding tuning target —faster than traditional apps.

  • Pitch raise pianos that are severely out of tune and confidently move from note to note. The app calculates the over-pull for each note from the expected deformation of the soundboard and plate.

  • Pianoscope gives you all the information you need to confidently navigate any piano, making it easy to combine ETD & Aural skills to overcome the inharmonicity of each and every note.


Hear from technicians who have benefited from this resource!

After 3 years being an ETD only technician with a full schedule tuning multiple pianos a day, my aural skills only went as far as unisons prior to going through this online resource for learning aural tuning from the team at Gazelle & PianoScope.

At the time, learning aural skills seemed like an unattainable goal for me to learn by myself without a local mentor. I felt isolated because I had nobody to help me in person and finding a local mentor was proving difficult in my area. Between this resource from Gazelle and understanding how to better utilize PianoScope’s aural tuning features, I cannot stress how much this transformed my tuning experience. Within weeks, I was tuning aural intervals and shortly after that gaining the confidence I needed to build aural temperaments. Almost immediately after starting to go through this material I felt my ETD tunings improve because I was hearing things I had never heard before. I was also able to better differentiate between tuning issues and voicing issues within the piano. Then out of nowhere, after mentioning to a highly respected colleague in my local area that I was learning aural tuning by going through this material, I suddenly had an invitation to come meet them in person to have them listen to my tunings and provide feedback.

Over the course of the next 8 months I went from knowing nothing about aural tuning, to having the confidence I needed to take the aural portion of the Piano Technician’s Guild RPT tuning exam (and pass at a level much higher than I ever thought possible when I started my aural tuning journey!). I cannot recommend this resource enough to anybody who wants to sharpen their ear and their aural tuning skills!

Kenny H. - Well-Loved Piano

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Learning Aural Tuning

$299

Full Online Resource
All 19 Lessons
5+ hours of videos lessons!

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