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LEARN THE CRAFT. BUILD THE CAREER.

Discover piano technology and a step-by-step path from tuning your first piano to becoming a professional technician.

No experience required. Start with your first piano.

Piano Technician Training for the Next Generation

Piano technology is where music, craftsmanship, problem-solving, and independence come together.

Apex gives you a step-by-step path from tuning your first piano to developing the professional skills, experience, and business foundation needed to become a working piano technician.

No experience required. Your journey can start with your first piano.

There’s Something Remarkable About Bringing a Piano Back to Life.

Inside every piano are thousands of parts working together—wood, felt, steel, tension, movement, and tone.

A careful turn of a tuning lever.

A hammer shaped by hand.

An action adjusted until it responds exactly as it should.

A chord that suddenly opens up and comes alive.

Piano technology is part science, part craftsmanship, and part art.

And it is a craft you can learn.

Your First Piano Could Be the Beginning of Something Bigger.

Maybe you simply want to learn a fascinating hands-on skill.

Maybe you’d like to earn additional income doing something connected to music.

Or maybe you’ll discover a craft that eventually becomes your own piano service business and career.

You don’t have to figure all of that out today.

You just have to start.

Bootcamp Is Just the Beginning.

For some students, Bootcamp is an opportunity to learn a fascinating new skill.

For others, it becomes the beginning of an entirely new career.

If you decide piano technology is something you want to pursue professionally, the Apex Piano Tech Mentorship gives you a path to continue developing your skills in:

Professional Tuning • Repair • Regulation • Voicing • Field Service • Business Development

The goal is to take you from your first experiences at the piano toward becoming a competent, confident professional piano technician.

Craftsmanship You Can Build a Career On.

Piano technology offers something increasingly difficult to find: a skilled, hands-on profession connected to music that can also become your own business.

Work With Your Hands

Develop a real craft and learn to solve real problems on real instruments.

Stay Connected to Music

Spend your working life around pianos, musicians, churches, studios, schools, and the people who make music.

Build Something of Your Own

Turn your technical skills into a piano service business and begin developing your own clientele.

Create More Flexibility

Build a profession that can offer greater control over your schedule, workload, and direction.

Individual results vary. Building a successful piano service business requires training, practice, business development, and consistent effort.

You Don’t Have to Decide Your Entire Future Today.

You Just Need Somewhere to Begin.

The Apex Piano Tuning Bootcamp is where your journey begins.

You don’t need previous piano technology experience. You don’t need to be an accomplished musician. And you don’t need to know whether you want to make this your career.

You simply need to get your hands on a piano and start learning the craft.

Inside Bootcamp, you’ll begin learning:

How an acoustic piano works
Proper tuning lever technique
Tuning pins, strings, pitch, and tension
How to hear what a piano tuner hears
How to begin tuning individual strings
How to create clean, stable unisons
Common beginner mistakes and how to avoid them
The fundamentals of the piano tuning profession

Your First Piano Could Be the Beginning of Something Bigger.

Every experienced piano technician once stood in front of a piano they didn’t yet know how to tune.

They had a first attempt.

A first clean unison.

A first complete tuning.

A first customer.

A first moment when an instrument sounded better because of something they had learned to do.

You don’t begin as a master.

You begin.

Eric Roberts

Apex Founder and Mentor

Meet Your Mentor - Eric Roberts

A Life Built Around Music, Craft, and the Piano

I didn’t set out to become a piano technician. I was a musician, music educator, and worship leader when I discovered a craft that brought together so many things I already loved—music, working with my hands, solving problems, and building something of my own.

More than 18 years later, that craft has taken me places I never expected. I’ve had the privilege of working with thousands of pianos and serving musicians, studios, churches, producers, and artists throughout Nashville—including work involving Harry Connick Jr., John Legend, Tony Bennett, Idina Menzel, Billy Ray Cyrus, Kip Moore, Orville Peck, and award-winning producers Jay Joyce and Gena Johnson.

I hold a BA in Music Education and am a Certified Master Piano Technician, but what I value most is the life this craft has allowed me to build: meaningful work around music, my own business, and the freedom to stay present for the people who matter most.

That’s why I created Apex.

I want to pass this craft on—to teach you not only how to tune and service a piano, but how to become the kind of technician people trust with their instruments.

Your path may look different from mine. But every technician begins the same way: with a piano, the right instruction, and the decision to start.

Learn the craft. Build the career. The Apex Way.

"The very first time Eric Roberts worked on my piano I could tell he’s the best. More than just a master tuner and technician - he makes my piano sing. Eric has an undefinable musical gift and is able to make any instrument better just by giving it his unique attention. I’ve played on several pianos he worked on in other studios and the difference he made in them is undeniable."