John Bernardini Piano Service John Bernardini is a graduate from the North Bennet Street School in Piano Technology and Advanced Piano Technology which he has started in September, 2001 and finished in May 2003. He has learned the aspects of piano tuning, small repairs, and regulation musical acoustics, tuning procedures and practice, temperaments, piano maintenance, upright and grand regulation and has received his first certificate in May ,2002.  He also has a part-time employee at the Boston University Music Department as a Piano Technician, tuning and repairing, and maintenance. Also has tuned pianos over at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute over the two Summers. He also holds another partime job at the New England Conservatory in Boston, Mass as a Piano Technician at Jordan Hall. He has formally held a full time position at M Steinert and Sons Piano in Boston, MA as a piano rebuilder since February 2004. He has completed some new tuning pinblocks, soundboard repairs, restringing pianos, damper assembly.  He also has completed the second year for the Advanced Piano Technology which he has learned the aspects of piano major repairs and restoration, this course included the practices of appraisals and estimates, pin block replacement, veneer repairs, refinishing, soundboard repairs/replacement, bridge capping, rescaling, action renovation, retrofitting, and replacement, use of hand tools and woodworking machinery, he has received his second certificate in May, 2003. He has also taken some field trips with the school to visit Mason and Hamlin in Haverhill, MA and the Steinway and Sons in Long Island, NY. These trips were magnificent with the tours and where learned how each of these factories manufacture their pianos.  He is a Registered Piano Technician (RPT) of the Piano Technician’s Guild (PTG) where he underwent on some seminars and conventions where he was advancing his standards and continuing education in his profession. He has studied the three part tests which has qualified him as a Registered Piano Technician (RPT), these tests consist of written part which is required before taking the other two. Then there are the tuning and the technical test (repairs, regulation in grand and vertical pianos). He has taken the Written RPT Exam at the PTG National Convention in Rochester, NY in June 2006. Then he underwent his RPT Technical Exam at the South East Regional Conference in Richmond, VA in October, 2008 and then he took his RPT Tuning Exam at the North Bennet Street School, Boston, MA also in October, 2008. As of October 23, 2008, John Bernardini has completed all of his exams that were required for him to become the Registerd Piano Technician of the Piano Technician's Guild. He has became interested in Piano Lessons in 1995 at the age of 29 and started taking lessons at the Brookline Music School for three years and he has also took up the Flute Lessons at the Dana School of Music in Wellesley, MA for two years. He is at his intermediate level while he finds time to practice with those two instruments. Thank You for the interest in John's Website                          Looking forward to be working on your pianos                   John Bernardini   RPT Pianoman3600@aol.com   (617) 840-4242      copyright 2003 john bernardini piano service/john bernardini Powered by the Register.com service