PIANO TUNING

Don Shabkie—Greenville, South Carolina

Working as a piano tuner, Don Shabkie tunes pianos at many area businesses and churches, as well as working for individuals at their homes. In addition, Don is now beginning his fourth year as one of two 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 piano in better shape.

Don is the regular tuner for the Westin Poinsett Hotel, Robert Jones Piano, the Greenvlle Country Club, and Trinity Presbyterian 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.

Jeanie Reed (Greenville County Teacher of the Year in 2007), and violist Jean Clarke (see below) also use Don's services.

Don will tune the piano at your home, church, business, etc. The base price for providing this service in Greenville, South Carolina is $85. Any piano under pitch will usually require two tunings, each at the same price. There is an extra travel charge for areas that extend 10 miles or more miles from downtown Greenville. For tunings in Simpsonville, Easley, and northern Greenville county, this travel charge will generally be $10.00. Please feel free to contact Don at any time.

Testimonial

Read this letter to Don from Jean Clarke, violinist and strings teacher at Stone Academy (elementary school).

"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.

If you are interested, please visit the tutorial page on Celtic harp tuning. You can also find this page on the menu.