ok i am doing a essay at college on the history of beethoven, and i have come to a question which no one seems to know. and the question is, ``who tuned beethovens piano?``. this really annoys me as i do not know. did he just buy a new one every time it needed tuning? or did he tune it himself? none of the college staff or the college books seem to know. so i was wondering if any of you guys know?
please could you help.
thanx

I would think that he`d got a tuner to tune. There`s such thing as a piano tuner, u do know that right? But it`s not suprising even if he was to tune it himself. I can tune my own piano also, using the old, traditional method that was passed down from masters to music professors. And gradually became a compulsory topic/credit for an old syllubus Music Degree. But pianists normally don`t tune it themselves, caz it`s very tedious. Hmm...What a strange question u`ve comed up with. U sure yr supposed to write that in yr essay? Or it`s just a thought that suddenly popped up?

...continued...If u`re writting an essay on Beethoven, shouldn`t it focus more on his work, style? More like an analysis/detailed programme notes with some interesting referance to his background. I don`t think u need to bring up the piano tuning thing. It sounds weird to me.

Yeah...I don`t think you`d want to give those types of details in your essay. But I`ve heard and you probably have too, that as he became more and more deaf he would play his piano louder and louder, and that supposedly made it go out of tune even quicker in addition to ruining it, so he bought new pianos quite frequently because of having to play them so loudly so as to be able to hear it. Eh...yeah.

sorry but DW you are so rude, you think you are so great, but really you are stuck so far up your own butt its unbeleviable.
i seen you on some of the other forums, and you just have no respect.

um...don`t know. it`s not an important thing. he was deaf, so he took off the legs on his pianos and left the pianos on the floor so he could feel vibrations. i know he wasn`t completely deaf all of his career, so, it is possible he could hear somewhat in earlier stages. also, he moved a lot, so, he wouldn`t possibly be able to carry a piano in a carriage or whatever. in conclusion, yes, he probably got a new piano everytime he moved.
Jen

I would think that he tuned it himself.....because if he played the piano as he did... youd think that hed know how to... this is just what i think tho... but...i dont think people actually persued careers like fixing pianos back then.... and those pianos back then were pretty messed to begin with...so i dont se how it could get any worse...if you watched some of the biagraphy movies on some famous classical composers youd know what i mean.....or.... he could haver played his piano so much that it ended up keepin his piano in tune.... because i=f you dont play your instrument for a while now.... it could petentially go out of tune... but if you play it alot alot it would be very unlikely...... sooo i think its either he did it himself... or he played his piano so much that it simply never needed to be tuned...i highly doubht he got someone to do it for him ( he generally kept to himself)

jen