Best Piano Repair Service Oakland Near Me

4worldlovers: Music has always been a huge part of my life. At age 11. I began playing music professionally. At age16 I traveled through Europe, touring with a group of young musicians. My love of music took me from my home in the San Francisco Bay area to Scottsdale, AZ where I joined a popular local band. It was during this time in Arizona that I developed an interest in piano tuning. In 1975, I began my apprenticeship in the art of piano tuning and rebuilding in Phoenix, AZ.

In 1977, my wife Suzanne began her apprenticeship in piano repair and rebuilding. With our training completed in 1978, we were ready to start our own business, so we moved back to our native San Francisco Bay area settling in San Leandro.

We are a husband and wife team who strive for complete customer satisfaction by ensuring that their piano is tuned, repaired, or refinished to its fullest potential. We have provided service to over 6,500 customers over the past 30 years and have built a solid base of friends and repeat customers. We have rebuilt many uprights and grand pianos including Steinway, Bosendorfer, Yamaha, Baldwin and many more. We work with you based on your own needs and your expectations of what you want your piano to be. Your piano is a lifetime investment, and is worthy of the care and upkeep that protects its value. It is our pleasure to serve you.

(If the piano needs a pitch raise and fine tuning done during the same appointment, the fee is $305.00)

To achieve the best possible tuning for your piano, you should provide a quiet environment for the tuner to work in. Every noise or sound within hearing distance of the tuner may compromise the quality of your tuning. There are some sounds within the household that can impede the tuner's hearing. Here are just a few:

4worldlovers: One of the first women admitted to the Piano Technician’s Guild.

Graduated from the Yamaha Little Red School House piano service program.

4worldlovers:
Celebrating more than 40 years of servicing pianos in the Bay Area, our goal at Bay Area Piano Service is quality work and service resulting in customer satisfaction.

At Bay Area Piano Service, we will get your piano back in tune within the limitations of the instrument we are working with. Owned and operated by Daniel Justin Doty, we service all makes and brands of pianos. Our time-tested and proven method of tuning utilizes aural (by ear) techniques in combination with state-of-the-art electronic equipment for the best possible result.

Bay Area Piano Service offers complete piano service, including tuning and repairs, minor restorations, appraisals, climate control systems, and voicing. We are voicing specialists. Please give us a call today and let us know how we can be of service. We look forward to hearing from you! Thanks for stopping by.

And many piano teachers and professional musicians in the Bay Area

Here are some professional musicians, concerts and studios have worked for over the years:

We were voted "Best Piano Tuning Service" in the Bay Area by the San Francisco Bay Guardian's "Best of the Bay 2007" "2013" "2019"

Daniel Doty of Bay Area Piano Service has been tuning and repairing my pianos for over 35 years. He is reasonably priced, knowledgeable in all aspects of piano maintenance and repairs and is honest as the day is long. Although his schedule is extremely full, he has gone out of his way on a number of occasions to help me when I needed his services on rather short notice. He is a true professional in the finest sense of the word. Carolyn Erbele, piano teacher in Berkeley

4worldlovers: When tuning a piano, the obvious objective is to precisely set the note of each string - there are approximately 240 on every piano. Equally important is ensuring that the strings do not drift out of tune prematurely. A piano has not been properly tuned if the tuning isn't stable. My tuning technique is augmented by state-of-the-art tools, including a custom made carbon-fiber and titanium tuning lever, for a musical tuning that is precise and stable.


I also offer non-equal / historical temperaments in addition to equal temperament (the contemporary "standard tuning"). If you aren't familiar with different tuning options, or want to try bringing new character to your playing, you might be pleasantly surprised by taking a step - great, or small, outside of equal temperament.