Technicians

Educational Resources

PTG Education Hub

A comprehensive and continually growing list of piano technology education resources available from the Piano Technicians Guild.- Includes links to the Path to RPT Certification and a new Mentorship Program.

PTG Digital Resources

Journal Media Files - View files that support articles in the Piano Technicians Journal.
Piano Technicians Journal - Digital - The Piano Technicians Journal is a monthly technical magazine covering all phases of working on pianos. Monthly articles explore new tools, industry news and organizational issues. Feature articles range from setting up a repair shop to rebuilding techniques.The Journal is the only monthly publication dedicated to piano technology.

PTG Technical Resources

Pianotech - A forum for anyone who wants to discuss technical issues. Connect to hundreds of other technicians around the world. Search the Pianotech archives for helpful technical information.
PTG Online Academy - A members-only collection of instructional content.
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Outside Technical Resources

The following are links to outside sources and are not created by PTG itself. We have found that these sites have useful information, but PTG does not endorse or sponsor the information contained in external links.

Bernhard Stopper from Germany presents computer animations of piano soundboard movement - This is a YouTube Video of a presentation he gave at the 2007 PTG Convention
Piano Tapes
About Temperaments - A page with graphical overview of music history and composers and what temperaments existed during those times. Includes a graph and chart of all cent sizes and beat rates
Tuning Temperaments Using an Electronic Meter - This site lists offsets from equal temperament for many historical temperaments
Five Lectures on the Acoustics of the Piano - The online version of a book edited by Anders Askenfelt. Sound files for example are included.
Edition Bochinsky - German language technical publications about pianos
US Patent Office has full text search of patents. Search on "piano"
Google now has Google Patents with a great database. This link searches for the word piano. There are patents back to 1890s.