LEARN TO TUNE YOUR FIRST PIANO
Start Your Journey to Becoming a Professional Piano Technician
Learn the Fundamentals of Piano Tuning—And Get Your Hands on a Piano.
You don’t need years of experience, a background in piano technology, or even previous tuning experience to get started.
The Apex Piano Tuning Bootcamp is a hands-on introduction to the craft of piano tuning. You’ll learn the fundamentals, begin developing the skills a piano technician uses every day, and discover what it actually feels like to work on a real piano.
This is where your Apex training begins.
No previous piano tuning experience required.
Learn the Craft by Doing It.
Piano tuning isn’t something you learn by simply watching videos.
You need to get your hands on a piano, pick up a tuning lever, learn how the instrument responds, and begin training your hands and ears to work together.
Inside Bootcamp, you’ll begin learning how to:
- Understand the basic mechanics of an acoustic piano
- Use a tuning lever correctly and safely
- Understand tuning pins, strings, tension, and pitch
- Begin hearing what a piano tuner hears
- Tune individual strings with confidence
- Create clean, stable unisons
- Recognize and avoid common beginner mistakes
- Understand the fundamentals of the piano tuning profession
This is hands-on training designed to get you off the sidelines and onto the piano.
No Experience?
That’s Exactly What Bootcamp Is For.
Bootcamp was created for the person who is thinking:
“I wonder if I could actually learn to tune pianos?”
You don’t need to know the answer yet.
Through step-by-step training and hands-on practice, you’ll begin learning the craft on a real piano and discover whether piano technology could become something bigger for you.
You don’t begin as a master technician.
You begin with your first piano.
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.
Your Bootcamp Investment Moves With You.
If you decide to continue your Apex training, your investment in Bootcamp doesn’t have to be left behind.
100% of your Bootcamp tuition can be credited toward eligible Apex training or Mentorship enrollment when you continue within 12 months of beginning Bootcamp.*
That means Bootcamp isn’t a separate program you finish and forget.
It’s the first step on the Apex path.
Meet Your Mentor - Eric Roberts
Eric Roberts is a Certified Master Piano Technician, music educator, and founder of Apex Piano, with more than 18 years of experience as a full-time independent piano technician.
Throughout his career, Eric has tuned tens of thousands of pianos and worked with world-class artists, recording studios, producers, churches, schools, and professional musicians throughout Nashville and beyond. His client list has included artists such as Harry Connick Jr., John Legend, Tony Bennett, Idina Menzel, Billy Ray Cyrus, and many others.
But Apex wasn’t created simply to teach people how to tune pianos. Eric built it to teach the real-world skills and systems he’s learned from nearly two decades in the field—and to give aspiring technicians the guidance he wishes he’d had when he started.
Today, Eric gets to make a living doing something he loves: working around music and musicians, running his own business, and having the flexibility to spend time with his family.
And that’s why he created Apex—to help others discover what learning this skill could make possible in their own lives.
"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."
Michael Webb, Pianist for Hank Williams Jr.
"Eric at Apex Piano is an amazing way to get started in piano tuning and to really learn what it's actually like to do this trade. He tells you how it is, and is an amazing teacher. Eric made the scary and daunting task of tuning a piano something I can tackle with confidence and go in believing I can do a good job tuning a piano."
Start With a Piano.
You don’t need years of experience. You don’t need to know everything about pianos. And you don’t need to decide today whether this will become your career. You need a piano. You need the right instruction. And you need to start.
Learn the Craft.
Start With Your First Piano.
Bootcamp tuition credit applies to eligible Apex training or Mentorship enrollment when continued within 12 months of beginning Bootcamp. Additional terms may apply.
