The Daily Aural Tuning Curriculum

88 Keys.
88 Lessons.
One Lifetime Skill.

The world's first daily podcast curriculum for learning aural piano tuning. Free episodes, premium mastery — 90 days to real confidence.

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88 episodes  ·  90 days  ·  Zero prior experience needed

The Craft

"Aural tuning is not a trick. It is a discipline — the same discipline that concert technicians have practiced for three hundred years, listening to the piano tell them what it needs."

Every piano is a living instrument. Its 230 strings stretch and settle with temperature, humidity, and the weight of every note ever played. Learning to hear that drift — and to correct it with confidence — is one of the most deeply satisfying technical skills a person can acquire.

Until now, the only way to learn it was expensive apprenticeship, scattered YouTube tutorials, or dense trade-school manuals. None of them were built for the way we actually learn today: a little at a time, on our own schedule, guided by a voice we trust.

There is a useful parallel here. An ETD — an electronic tuning device — can measure frequencies with precision a human ear cannot match. Yet the best technicians in the world still learn to tune by ear first. Because the ear is not a measuring instrument. It is a relationship — with the piano, with the room, with the music the instrument is being prepared to make. Numbers can inform that relationship. They cannot replace it.

This curriculum was built with AI assistance — for scripting, voice production, and content sequencing. We say so plainly, because we believe transparency is the beginning of trust. The technology makes this possible at the scale it needs to be. But the ears you train over 88 days? Those are yours alone. No algorithm can tune that Steinway in the morning light for Mrs. Patterson on the fourth floor.

Why 88 Lessons Exists

Built for the way skilled people actually learn.

Eathan Janney launched Piano Technicians Masterclasses in 2017 — the first-ever livestream education product created for the piano technology profession. The first class focused on voicing, a topic many said could not be taught effectively in this format. We proved otherwise, and PTM quickly became a trusted resource for industry professionals seeking elite-level skills.

When the pandemic arrived in 2020, Eathan's foresight meant that our community was already prepared to learn and connect online. He began leading the first-ever online conferences for piano technicians, bringing as many as 500 participants to a single event and featuring some of the most respected educators in the world. Soon after, he launched Piano Tech Radio Hour alongside colleague and respected industry veteran David Andersen, offering support, connection, and conversation during the hardest days of the pandemic.

That decade of work proved something: skilled craft can cross a wire. Not all of it — the feel of a key action, the resistance of a tuning pin — but the ear? The ear is perfectly transmissible through a speaker. In some ways, it trains better that way. Isolation focuses the listener.

88 Lessons is the culmination of that decade: a serialized curriculum of 88 daily episodes, sequenced like an apprenticeship, built with the best tools available in 2026: AI scripting, AI voice production, and AI content sequencing. We share this plainly because hiding it would be dishonest — and because the craft demands transparency and accountability.

The tools are modern. The skill is ancient. The goal is yours: by episode 88, you'll know how to tune a piano by ear. That is still something only a human being can decide to do, and only a human being can actually do.

The 90-Day Arc

From first listen to first tuning job.

1

Days 1–22

Foundations of Sound

Acoustics, string physics, interval recognition, the equal temperament system — the ears begin to open.

2

Days 23–44

Temperament & Touch

Setting the octave, tuning the temperament octave, muting technique, and the feel of a tuning hammer.

3

Days 45–66

The Full Keyboard

Tuning all 88 notes by ear, bass string behavior, treble stretch — a complete piano becomes familiar territory.

4

Days 67–88

Confidence & Career

Pitch-raise, customer pianos, pricing your time, building a local reputation — the craft becomes a living.

What We Believe

Craft is learned by listening, not by watching.

Audio-native learning

Piano tuning is done with your ears. Your curriculum should be too. Every episode is built for deep listening — not screen-watching.

Daily progressive structure

Skill compounds like interest. One focused episode per day, 88 days in sequence, builds genuine expertise that random watching never does.

Freely accessible, deeply optional premium

Every lesson is free to listen. Premium members get worksheets, AI practice tools, and the master series — for those who want to go further.

AI-assisted, human-earned

This curriculum was built with AI — scripting, voice production, content sequencing. We say so openly. The tools are modern. But the skill you develop is entirely your own: no algorithm can tune the piano at the end of this course. Only you can.

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Master's Workshop — Premium

Go deeper with the full technical curriculum.

Practice worksheets, beat-counting exercises, AI pitch analysis tools, and an extended master series for those preparing for PTG certification or professional work.

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Who This Is For

Three kinds of curious people.

The Career Changer

Skilled hands, new direction.

You are 35–50, good with your hands, and thinking about flexible trade work that respects your intelligence. Piano tuning pays $80–180 per appointment, sets its own schedule, and never gets outsourced to a machine.

The Musician

The instrument beneath the music.

You have played piano for years and have always wondered what happens inside the lid. 88 Lessons will transform the way you hear every piano you ever sit down to play.

The Aspiring Technician

A proven path before the program.

You are 18–30 and considering PTG membership or a formal trade program. 88 Lessons gives you the aural foundation first — so when you enter formal training, you are already ahead.

The piano has been waiting.
Your ears are ready.

88 episodes. 88 keys. One discipline that will change the way you hear every piano for the rest of your life.

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