Association of Blind Piano Tuners

The Aims of the Association of Blind Piano Tuners

The Association of Blind Piano Tuners exists to serve the professional and particular needs of its members and other blind and partially sighted piano tuners throughout the world. All new members of the ABPT resident in the UK are vetted by the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) and approved to work in situations with vulnerable adults or children. There are three categories of membership for the UK:

Piano Tuners listed on this site who are full members are covered with a minimum of £5 million public liability insurance and £10 million employer's insurance.

Mission Statement.

To continue as the leading authority and association for blind or partially sighted piano tuners, insisting that only those professionally trained, examined, and qualified are accepted into membership, ensuring that the public knows that an ABPT member will offer skilled, professional, and reliable service.

To date no piano has ever been made by any piano manufacturer that does not require a schedule of regular tunings by a professional tuner. It is also a fact that a piano will go out of tune whether it is played or not. Local changes in humidity and changes in the seasons affect all pianos, new and old, no matter if they are played or just left. All manufacturers recommend that a piano be tuned twice a year.

Find a piano tuner in your area:

England

• Avon
• Bedfordshire
• Berkshire
• Buckinghamshire
• Cambridgeshire
• Cheshire
• Cleveland
• Derbyshire
• Devon
• Dorset
• Durham
• Essex
• Gloucestershire
• Hampshire
• Herefordshire
• Hertfordshire
• Kent
• Lancashire
• Lincolnshire North
• London
• Gt.Manchester
• Merseyside
• Middlesex
• Norfolk
• Northumberland
• Oxfordshire
• Shropshire
• Somerset North
• Staffordshire
• Surrey
• Sussex East
• Sussex West
• Tyne-and-Wear
• Warwickshire
• West Midlands
• Wiltshire
• Worcestershire
• Yorkshire

Scotland

• Scotland

Wales

• Wales
• Anglesey
• Carmarthenshire
• Conwy
• Gwynedd
• Neath Port Talbot
• Swansea

Associate members are qualified piano tuners who are not qualified technicians and therefore are not covered by our public liability insurance. List of Associate Members

Only Members and Fellows who are resident in the UK are covered by our insurance policies. Only Full Members, Fellows, International Members and Associated Members may add the letters to their name and use the ABPT logo. All membership is at the discretion and approval of the ABPT Council.