My Piano Man Bringing You The Right Tune every time you play your piano by Dennis Wiles Cloves of my piano man

<body> <center> <table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td width="13%"> <p align="center"><img border="0" src="coatofsmall.jpg" width="67" height="101"></td> <td width="73%" align="center"><a href="story.htm"><font face="Arial" size="1">Piano Man Story</font> </a><font face="Arial" size="1">| <a href="links.htm">Piano Man Links</a> | <a href="information.htm">Piano Man Information</a> | <a href="home.htm">Piano Man Home</a></font></td> <td width="14%"> <p align="center"></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="13%"> <p align="center"></td> <td width="73%" align="center"></td> <td width="14%"> <p align="center"></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="13%"> <p align="center"></td> <td width="73%" align="center"> <p align="center"> <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" width="296" height="148"> <param name="movie" value="party.swf"> <param name="quality" value="high"><embed src="party.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="600" height="300"> </object> </td> <td width="14%"> <p align="center"></td> </tr> </table> <a href="Home.htm"> <div align="left"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td width="50%"></td> <td width="50%"></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="50%"></td> <td width="50%"></td> </tr> </table> </div> <div align="left"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" height="116"> <tr> <td width="4%" height="598" rowspan="4"></td> <td width="93%" height="1"> <p align="center"><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS">Hello, I'm Dennis Wiles-Cloves of my piano man & it's my aim to help you get the best from your piano. From performing artists like Sir Elton John to musicians starting at school we have helped them all.</font> <p align="center"><img border="0" src="piano1.jpg" width="288" height="191"> <p align="center"><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS">This is me with Sir Elton John's piano</font></p> <p align="center"> </td> <td width="3%" height="1"></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="93%" height="494" align="center"></a><b><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">ADVICE</font></b> <p><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">Do you need advice on buying a piano? What to buy, what not to buy and where to buy?<br> Where to site your piano - yes, it does matter!<br> How to help your piano stay in tune, be it on the concert stage or in the home.<br> How to solve problems, such as woodworm, moth or mice infestation.<br> What about flood damage?<br> How to solve damage of any kind.<br> Quotations for insurance purposes.</font></p> <p> </p> <p><b><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">WHY DO PIANOS NEED TUNING?</font></b></p> <p><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">Because of the tension on the strings there is approximately 200 tonnes of pressure across the back of an average piano. This is a huge force. The stretched strings are pulling at the piano frame, trying to ease this tension. Regular tuning maintains the tension and the beautiful harmony of the instrument. It also provides an opportunity for regular inspection to assist with the possible diagnosis of potential piano health problems.<br> </font></p> <p><b><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">CASE HISTORIES</font></b></p> <p><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">1<br> I visited a customer who had recently moved to a new house. The beautiful Viennese concert grand piano that had previously stood in a relatively unused music room in a large house with little heating, had been placed in a modern, centrally heated sitting room next to a radiator! When I arrived, I found that the wooden parts of the piano had dried so much that it was almost impossible to tune it. We saved the piano just in time and it had been fine ever since. Had the piano been left any longer, it would not have survived.</font></p> <p><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">2<br> One autumn I was called by a customer who organised the regular tuning of the local church piano. I had tuned the piano many times before and it was a fine upright instrument. Now, however, many of the keys didn’t play and when pressed, stuck down. With a Harvest Festival service looming, what was to be done? On opening up the piano, the cause was immediately evident. Mice! Although not nesting IN the piano, (they get in through the pedal holes), they had found lots of lovely felt and leather to nibble on and had left their droppings on the backs of the keys. The droppings had fallen between the keys causing them to block. The problem, although great, was not too serious and now all is well.<br> </font> <p><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">3<br> I had tuned a piano for a new customer and I drew her attention to the fact that it was not playing as well as it should. Many of the red-nosed tapes in the action were broken and playing the piano was difficult. After replacing the old tapes and regulating the piano action, my customer is amazed at the improvement and she is now able to play pieces that she thought were beyond her capabilities.<br> </font> <p><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">4<br> I was telephoned by a new customer who had just bought an inexpensive, second-hand upright piano. But when they tried to play it the carpet below the keyboard was sprinkled with white dust. Why? The piano was riddled with woodworm…!<br> </font> <p><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">5<br> I was asked to tune a grand piano for a well-known professional musical duo at a concert venue to raise money for charity. However, on arrival, I found the sustain pedal was totally out of action. I tuned the piano, which sounded gorgeous but what about the pedal? Well, with less than a few hours to go before the concert, time was running short. The piano was eventually working for the concert, but needed some additional work at a later date.<br> <br> </font> <p><b><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE TO TUNE A PIANO?</font></b></p> <p><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">Usually it takes about an hour and a half per visit.</font></p> <p><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">However, I have to say that when I was engaged to tune Sir Elton John’s piano on his concert tour in Northamptonshire, the stage management insisted that I had only forty-five minutes in which to tune the piano. The piano, having been badly tuned at the last venue, was wildly out of tune by concert standards. Within the hour, the piano was ‘up to scratch’.</font></p> <p><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">On the other hand, if a piano hasn’t been tuned for years, it can take much longer than this.<br> </font></p> <p><b><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">CLIENT LIST</font></b></p> <p><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">I have tuned pianos for the following…</font></p> <font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">BBC<br> Des O’Connor<br> Glyndebourne Opera<br> Ken Dodd<br> Kit and The Widow<br> Milton Keynes City Orchestra<br> Milton Keynes Theatre<br> Northampton Roadmender Theatre<br> Northern Ballet Theatre<br> Peter Donahoe<br> Robert Walker<br> Ruthie Henshall<br> Sir Elton John,<br> The Royal Ballet<br> The Royal Shakespeare Company<br> And many more…<br> </font> <p><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">And regular tuning with my wonderful domestic clients, churches, concert venues, operatic societies, schools, piano and singing teachers throughout the county and beyond.</font></p> <p> </p> <p align="center"><b><u><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">QUALIFICATIONS</font></u></b></p> <p align="center"><b><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS">For piano tuning and repair my qualifications include:</font></b></p> <p align="center"><b><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS">City and Guilds London Institute Part I</font></b></p> <p align="center"><b><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS">City and Guilds London Institute Part II</font></b></p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><b><u><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">TEACHING QUALIFICATION</font></u></b></p> <p align="center"><b><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS">Certificate of Education (Music and Mathematics) with certificates for further professional study. </font></b> <p align="center"><b><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS">I am a fully qualified Music Teacher and professional performer.</font></b> <p>  <p align="center"><b><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS">I belong to the following professional associations:</font></b></p> <p align="center"><b><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS"><br> </font><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">The Federation of Small Businesses </font></b></p> <p align="center"><b><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS"> <img border="0" src="fsb.jpg" width="131" height="151"></font></b></p> <p align="center"><b><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">The Guild of Master Craftsmen </font></b></p> <p align="center"><b><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS"><img border="0" src="coatofsmall.jpg" width="112" height="170"></font></b></p> <p align="center"> </p> <ul> <li><b><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS">All my work is fully guaranteed.</font></b></li> <li><b><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS">I offer services for both grand and upright pianos</font></b></li> <li><b><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS">Piano tuning from the highest standard of concert tuning to rescuing a long neglected, but still loved piece of furniture.</font></b></li> </ul> <p><b><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS"> </font></b></p> <p><b><u><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">REPAIRS</font></u></b></p> <p><b><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS"><br> From sticking keys, notes not working, keys needing polishing, missing ivories, broken hammers, new hammers, new dampers, new tapes, new strings, problems with pedals, water marks on the lid, missing veneer, French polishing…</font></b></p> <p><b><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS">In fact, everything you might need to improve or repair your piano.</font></b></p> <p><b><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS"> </font></b></p> <p><b><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">REGULATION</font></b></p> <p><b><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS"><br> Like cars, pianos need servicing and from time to time all pianos need re-regulating to enable them to perform at their best.</font></b></p> <p> </p> <p align="center"><b><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS">SO…<br> </font></b></p> <p><b><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS">Need new castors?<br> Need new sconces or candle holders?<br> Need complete restoration? </font></b> <p align="center"><b><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">Here’s one small console piano I completely restored.</font></b> <p align="center">  <p align="center"><img border="0" src="images/piano_repair.jpg" width="300" height="225"> <p> </p> <p align="center"><b>01933 675995<br> is the number to dial</b> <p align="center"> </td> <td width="3%" height="494"></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="82%" height="79" align="center"><a href="Home.htm"> <p align="center" style="text-indent: 0; 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