Organizing Shops, Rebuilding Pianos w/ Bill Monroe
Make sure to get in on our latest masterclass covering Action Geometry with Dean Reyburn. Join us Thursday April 18 at 3pm Pacific or 6pm Eastern Time. Visit https://bit.ly/pianoaction to register!
Todayβs episode features Bill Monroe, an expert at rebuilding grand pianos and a top technician with over 20 years of experience. In covering a range of topics, Bill starts by talking about the thought that goes into building and organizing a shop. Planning your own workshop? Tune in to learn why ductwork (custom tubing) underneath the concrete is a cheat code and a pro tip.
How do you divide your time between fieldwork and the shop? Bill shares his insights about managing a variable and dynamic schedule.
Lastly, have you thought about elevating your business through a web presence? Bill has seen his business grow over the past five years through online savvy, and he breaks it down for us. If you want to hear from a leading piano tech about his journey, methods, and tips to navigate this industry, tune in!
Here's a little bit about our guest Bill Monroe:
Bill, William, Monroe is a Registered Piano Technician and PTG member, specializing in rebuilding grand pianos. After graduating from school at Montana State University in Bozeman in wildlife ecology, his career took a detour in the year 1999 when he decided to tune pianos full-time. He is the owner of A440 Piano Services in Belleville, Wisconsin.
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How do you divide your time between fieldwork and the shop? Bill shares his insights about managing a variable and dynamic schedule.
Lastly, have you thought about elevating your business through a web presence? Bill has seen his business grow over the past five years through online savvy, and he breaks it down for us. If you want to hear from a leading piano tech about his journey, methods, and tips to navigate this industry, tune in!
Here's a little bit about our guest Bill Monroe:
Bill, William, Monroe is a Registered Piano Technician and PTG member, specializing in rebuilding grand pianos. After graduating from school at Montana State University in Bozeman in wildlife ecology, his career took a detour in the year 1999 when he decided to tune pianos full-time. He is the owner of A440 Piano Services in Belleville, Wisconsin.
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Make sure to get in on our latest masterclass covering Action Geometry with Dean Reyburn. Join us Thursday April 18 at 3pm Pacific or 6pm Eastern Time. Visit https://bit.ly/pianoaction to register!
Creators and Guests
Host
David Andersen
David Andersen, owner of David Andersen pianos in Los Angeles has been a professional musician, recording artist, and piano technician/consultant for nearly four decades. He has overseen the restoration and maintenance of hundreds of Steinway and Mason & Hamlin pianos during that time. Beginning in 1975 he apprenticed for two and a half years under Jack Cofer in Atlanta, Georgia; during the 1980s he studied at Steinway facilities both in New York and London.
Host
Eathan Janney
Eathan has 20 years of experience as a piano technician. He studied with Dave Miller, the staff piano technician for the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, New Jersey. Dave Carpenter, the inventor of the Verituner electronic tuning device, provided mentorship for Eathan in Chicago. Eathan also worked with Ken Eschete and Bill Schwarts, the staff piano technicians at Northwestern University in Chicago. In 2009, he founded Floating Piano Factory of New York, a company that allows piano technicians to move from Apprentice to Craftsman level while offering value pricing to clients as technicians progress toward mastery. In 2017 he founded Piano Technicians Masterclasses, an online project designed to offer cutting-edge instruction from piano industry masters to anyone on the globe with an internet connection.