Dr. Howard tuned his first piano in 1966, the year he started as a music major at San Francisco State College. He has been actively tuning ever since, including a five year period in which he serviced pianos full time in Washington State. He has a special perspective on the needs and interests of music teachers, since he taught private lessons on the piano and other instruments for eleven years. He earned a B.A. in Elementary Education from Brigham Young University, an M.A. In Music Education from Eastern Washington University, an M.A. in Multicultural Education from the University of New Mexico, and a Ph.D. in Bilingual Education at the University of New Mexico. He retired from the School of Education (Gallup Graduate Studies Center), Gallup New Mexico.
Currently, Dr. Howard is a full time piano tuner living in Wichita, Kansas (and also servicing New Mexico and Arizona on a regular basis).
Qualified and equipped to tune, regulate, voice, and repair old and new pianos.
Wichita, Kansas: full time Tuner/technician
Gallup, NM: piano service technician for Gallup, NM Facilities Management Group and Gallup-McKinley County School District (about 70 tunings/year) '98- present. Also home and institutional tunings (300+ per year)
Thatcher, AZ: piano service technician for Thatcher, AZ Preventive Maintenance Group (about 180 tunings/year) '95-97 (Also 30+ plus home and institutional tunings in SW NM and SE AZ 1992-97)
Albuquerque, NM: tuned for churches and homes since 1985
Silver City, NM: piano service technician for Western New Mexico University (about 50 tunings per year) 1992-97
Lubbock, TX: tuned for BODE Enterprises (reference: Bob Johnson, RPT. Serviced many stores, churches, schools and homes, 1985-92 (about 25 tunings per month, plus shop work)
Bloomfield, NM: tuned for two stores in Farmington, and many churches, schools, homes, etc. 1979-95
Tuner/technician, Howard Piano Service, full time 1978-1982
tuned for many schools, churches, stores in Eastern WA (100 per month)
Tuner/technician, Squires, the Organ and Piano Center 1977-78
Spokane, WA full time
Tuner, part time, California, Venezuela, Utah, Maine 1966-77
Piano Technicians Guild (PTG) Former Associate Member. Exams passed: tuning, written. (National Bylaws committee, 1993; Local Chapter monthly Journal Editor, state conference committee 1989, National newsletter committee, 1991; chapter president elect, 1991-92). Special training: PTG conferences 1988, 1989, Steinway factory orientation in action regulation, 1977.
Related Publications
Howard, Roy E. "How to Keep Your Upright Sounding Grand", Music Educators Journal, November, 1985, pp. 52-56.
Howard, Roy E. (Editor). Texas Piano Tech. Northwest Texas Chapter, Piano Technicians Guild, Lubbock, Texas. Editor, columnist, cartoonist, of monthly journal 1987- 90.
Howard, Roy E. "Piano Man", The Piano Quarterly. Various issues in 1989. (Instructional Cartoons).
Howard, Roy E. Piano History, Selection, and Care for the Musician, Teacher, Student. http://www.cantos.org/Piano/PianoHistory.html
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