Ben is fantastic! He has been tuning my grand piano for several years, and has also worked fairly extensively on the action. My piano is a Petrof grand (6' 3") and is about 25 years old. When I purchased it a few years ago, I loved the tone, but the action needed some work, as the key weighting and touch were pretty inconsistent across the entire range. Ben and I discussed options during tuning sessions and last year he came to me with a solution, which was to do a "weigh off", and make the touch weight the same throughout the keyboard. I chose the weighting I wanted and he set to work, making it consistent and buttery-smooth, and consistent from bottom to top. While this isn't something every piano needs, or that every pianist would appreciate, I felt it was important to get the best possible performance out of the instrument. The tone has always thrilled me, and Ben's work to subtly shape the voice and timbre of the piano has been exception, but now the touch and action are really just about perfect, and much closer to what you would experience in a much more expensive piano.
At the end of the day, Ben knows what will bring the most out of any piano, and will never try to oversell services. Instead, he will find out what is important to your enjoyment of your piano, and will work to get you there. If it is just a simple tune, there is nobody better, and I have recommended him to other family members who have needed their instruments to sound they way they should.
If you need more work done to your piano (hammers, pins, felt, action, etc.), you should know that Ben will do the work you need, with excellence and consistency, and charges a fair price in the process. I am soooo glad I found Ben and Stay Tuned PDX to help care for my instrument, and I give his service the highest recommendation! read more