About

APTN Mission

Help current or aspiring tuners become masters at tuning, regulating, voicing and repairs.
Assist techs in implementing the Apex system to grow their local businesses
Create a vibrant community where techs can connect and thrive.

Over the past 20 years, the Apex team has created and optimized the protocol for tuning, regulating, voicing, repair, business, and marketing that is now the driving force of success in Apex Piano. On a local level, the team of Apex Technicians serve over 5,000 amazing clients and have over 60 5-star ratings on Google and Facebook! Led by Master Tech and mentor Eric Michael Roberts, they have tuned and serviced many high-end pianos for artists including Harry Connick Jr., John Legend, Kip Moore, Orville Peck, Idina Menzel (Disney’s Frozen), June Carter Cash, Michael Web (Hank Williams Jr.), James Stafford (Train), Tim Rosenau (Toby Mac), Rob Frazier (Petra), Alex Goot, Mark Lowry, Tony Bennett, Billy Ray Cyrus and Firerose, and David Gant (Garth Brooks).

In 2019, Apex formed the Apex Piano Technicians Netowork (APTN) and launched a comprehensive one-on-one online membership program and community to help young technicians learn the trade and launch their own successful businesses. Using proven marketing and business practices and the ETD tuning method, the Apex Way is the fastest and best way to create your succesful local business as a master piano technician. You receive full traning and certification and access to the amazing Apex community.

Apex has trained technicians in USA, Canada, Singapore, England and other countries around the world. We offer the only one-on-one online mentorship program of its kinds. Apex is truly set apart partly because we built amazing courses and combine the course work with our proprietary online social platform where you connect with your mentors and other students and alumni around the world. Want to see how it all works, join the next Piano Tuner Success Bootcamp and Apply below.

Who are your APTN mentors?

Eric Michael Roberts has a BA in Music Education and is a graduate from the Randy Potter School of Piano Technology. Eric is the lead technician for the Nashville, TN Apex team. Eric is also a fanatical educator, author, and trainer in the piano technology field with over a million views on the APTN YouTube training videos. In 2009 he wrote and published the popular Rapid Voicer training book/video series with Dr. Jack Hamilton which is being used across the world to help technicians understand and perform field voicing. Eric also designed the SHARK tuning hammer which is the first carbon fiber tuning hammer to use unique weight distribution to make the tuning process faster and easier. Eric’s tools are being used by technicians all over the world including Japan, Australia, Malaysia, Canada, Poland, Czechia, Switzerland, Norway, Cyprus, Taiwan and Hawaii. The SHARK was recently seen on an episode of the Nextflix series The First (with Sean Penn) when a piano technician was cast as extra in the episode. In 2019, Eric relocated to Nashville, TN where he runs the school and leads a team of music city technicians.