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.

Who are your APTN mentors?

Eric 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.  

Todd Anderson is a Certified Piano Technician and the lead technician for the Dayton/Cincinnati Apex team. Todd recently tuned for the Wright State University event that hosted actor Tom Hanks, tuned for Tony Bennett at the Fraze in 2018 and is on the exclusive field technician team for Hauer Music, one of the largest music stores in the United States.  Todd is a master of tuning clean unisons and uses the ETD method with the Sanderson AccuTuner to tune pianos daily for his clients.

How APTN began:

Together, 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!   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, APTN launched a membership and mentorship community to help young technicians learn the trade and to help technicians at every level become successful in their local market using proven marketing and business practices we developed over 18 years of working in the industry full time as local technicians.  

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 truely set apart partly because we built amazing courses and combine the course work with our propietary 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.