Association of Blind Piano Tuners
UK Piano Page

Welcome to the Association of Blind Piano Tuners (ABPT) website known as the 'UK Piano Page'. It contains information about everything related to pianos; we are the home of UK piano industry. We have designed the site to make things easier to find and allow professionals listed on this site to update their details. We have one of the largest collections of piano history information on the internet, with a special emphasis on the history of the piano industry in the United Kingdom. We also cover a wide selection of overseas piano makers, and provide links to sites with a piano history theme.

The UK Piano Page also contains a wealth of information on tuners,manufacturers, movers, accompanists, teachers, entertainers, hirecompanies, French polishers, piano part makers, and piano construction. You may even findplaces to wine and dine with live piano music in the background. We havea database of pianos for sale by shops around the UK, as well as a freesection for the general public to advertise their pianos for sale.Answers to a variety of piano-related questions are found on the pub quiz page. Wehave an active piano discussion forum where you can seek answers to questions onpianos, their history, and piano music. If you would like to advertiseon the UK Piano Page, please visit ouradvertising page.

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:

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.

We encourage all tuners to gain and maintain the highest professional standards and to exhibit ethical and professional integrity at all times.

We offer ongoing training to piano tuners who wish to acquire extra levels of ability. This is open to all everyone, even if they are not yet members of the Association. We do this by running subsidised seminars for fully sighted and visually impaired tuners in close collaboration with the Piano Tuning Department of the Royal National College for the Blind, at Hereford in England. We maintain close links with all of the professional bodies of the music industry, and in particular with piano tuning organisations worldwide. The purpose of the website is to educate the general public in the good practice of maintaining their musical instruments and using professional tuners to do this work. This follows the broad outline of our mission statement. If we may be of any further assistance to you, please contact us.

• Members
• International Members
• Trade Members
• Associate Members
• Friends of the ABPT
• The Council
• Application form
• Benefits of being a member

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.