Working as a piano tuner, Don Shabkie tunes pianos at many area businesses and churches, as well as working for individuals at their homes. The fall of 2009 will mark the beginning of Don's third year to be one of two selected tuners for the Greenville County School District. If you are a teacher in the Greenville County Schools, please visit Tips to Keep Your Piano in Tune. This page contains practical suggestions that will help you keep your school pianos in tune.
Don is the regular tuner for the Westin Poinsett Hotel, and the Greenvlle Country Club, as well as Trinity Presbyterian Church, and Covenant Methodist Church. His list of customers includes has included many very fine musicians in the Greenville area, such as Trudy Fuller and Lisa Barksdale, who are both members of the Furman University Voice Faculty, and Anneka Zuehlke, who serves as principal horn in The Greenville Symphony.
In addition, guitarist Don will tune the piano at your home, church, business, etc. The base price for providing this service in Greenville, South Carolina is $80. Any piano under pitch will usually require two tunings, each at the same price. There is an extra $5.00 charge for any trip to a site beyond 10 miles from downtown Greenville. Please feel free to contact Don at any time.
"Don, thank you so much for tuning the piano in my strings classroom at Stone Academy! You always do an excellent job tuning the piano. It is so important to have an "in tune" piano for strings students to practice with. I teach my students the correct intonation based on the piano pitches. You have also done an excellent job tuning the other three pianos at our school---the general music/choral piano, the "piano studio" piano, and the stage piano. We always choose you to tune our pianos."
As one of the many piano tuners in Greenville, SC, Don became interested in tuning pianos after years of piano playing experience. Fascinated with the history of keyboard and fixed-string tuning, he began this trade learning to tune his Celtic harp, and eventually began to learn to address the larger issue of tuning the piano.