Matthew James Richards - Piano Tuner & Repair Technician Wolverhampton

read moreTraining at the royal national college in Hereford, winning the Mcgreggers prize and becoming a certified Piano Tuner Technician for the two leading associations in the UK, I tune to a professional standard whatever the situation. Tuning services I offer includes pitch raising, and fine tuning

read moreI carry out a variety of repair work including on site repairs (such as sticking keys, broken hammer shanks, string replacement etc). For more demanding repair work i can rebuild the Piano action in my workshop.

Repair work includes:

String replacement
Action part replacement, such as hammer shanks, flanges, dampers and other wooden and moving parts
Action felt replacement
Center pin replacement
Key bushing replacement and easing
Key top covering replacement
Pedal repairs

read moreI offer a cleaning service for both Upright and Grand Pianos. The service includes soundboard cleaning, removal of keys to gain access to the keybed (this is where decades of dust and objects can be found), and action cleaning.

read moreThe regulating service I offer ensures that your Piano performs at its best. Regulation is an important process as for the Piano to produce an even playability, execute dynamics, and function correctly.

Regulating includes dampers and touch, key leveling, dip and hammer spacing. Loss motion, check, and set off ajustments.

read moreMatthew carried out a pitch raise to our Piano that had not been turned for many years. It was important to be at pitch as our daughter is starting her grade exams. I couldn't be more happier with the result!

read moreExcellent friendly service highly recommended. A wonderful musician also.

read moreMatthew came and tuned our piano yesterday and did an excellent job. It hadnt been tuned in a long time (also had sticking keys).
He was friendly, knowledgeable and took a lot of care with it. Piano now sounds amazing!
Ill definitely be in touch for its next tuning in the future- thank you for making it playable again!

read moreMatthew tuned our piano today. Learnt lots about its history too!
Friendly, professional service. Can definitely recommend

read moreMatthew has tuned my daughters piano with great enthusiasm, providing information on the pianos history to the best of his knowledge and restored one of the keys functionality all of which was included in the price. A very pleasant and professional individual, would definitely recommend his services.

read moreThank you Matthew for retuning my piano today, and repairing a spring etc.. I actually cried playing it after you had gone, it now sings like a dream and I'm Loving it. You would never know it is 96 years old. Thank you so much

read moreMatthew is brilliant. Very professional and thorough. Have used him for years and he always does a great job with a smile on his face. To hear our piano played by him afterwards is such a treat - so talented. Would definitely recommend.

read moreBrilliant piano tuner and performer. Lovely person with an admirable passion for his work. In addition to tuning he does maintenance and he valued and identified origin of my piano too. Can't recommend highly enough.

read moreI could not fault Matthew on his work, he arrived on time, was lovely to speak to and showed me what he was doing with each part of the piano as I was interested.

When he was finished my piano sounded better than I'd remembered...

His price was surprisingly reasonable, and he clearly knows his stuff and was so enthusiastic about it! Will definitely have him back in a few months, would highly recommend.

Thankyou so much!

read moreAbsolutely fantastic! A very professional service and my historic piano has been brought back to life. Matthew, it was a pleasure to meet you