Laffan Piano Tuning

18/03/2024

Delighted to be supporting and performing (Friday night) in this boutique and unique festival in our lovely Limerick city! Come along and enjoy any of the events this coming weekend!

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09/03/2024

Was a great honour to tune harpsichord for Jonathan Cohen’ Arcangelo on Thursday at the NCH. Bravo for some magic music!

05/02/2024

📣 COMPETITION TIME! Win a ticket to a concert of medieval music on February 11th @ 4pm in Limerick, Ireland, featuring Doron Schleifer (countertenor) and Corina Marti (medieval harpsichord & recorders).

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23/01/2024

Primed and then shiny!

15/01/2024

Piano bridge pins complete!

19/10/2023

First run of bridge notching - plenty to improve, but a good start - and it’s on the non-speaking side, so I get a bit of a pass! Many thanks for to inspiring work of

18/10/2023

My new favourite clock!

24/09/2023

Some colleagues of mine just released Triple Spiral, a dance piece with live baroque instruments, composed by

TRIPLE SPIRAL is a new work composed by Justin Grounds, drawing inspiration from Baroque instruments and bringing it into the present day. The result is vibr...

05/09/2023

Drilling for bridge pins, so many holes!!

26/08/2023

Laying out bridge pin pattern from the original builder’s template - or at least what they out on this piano!!

23/08/2023

Laying out new string pattern for bridge pins…

20/08/2023

Downbearing! All those lovely wood-shavings!

31/03/2023

Coolest find so far 2023. A new client recently imported the old family piano from the Czech Republic - a Berlin made Ferd Manthey - and mentioned her grandfather used to tune it himself. And lo and behold I found his old tuning lever in the trapwork cavity. I’ve never seen a lever like it, so I don’t know if it was self made or off the shelf, but it’s definitely cool and worked reasonably well too.

19/03/2023

Tuner by Day, Tenor by night. Delighted to be singing for the opening concert of the Limerick Early Music Festival, St Mary’s Cathedral Friday March 24th. One of several unique and lovely events taking place over the weekend through Sunday March 26th….and many harpsichords to tune!!! Don’t miss out!

Limerick Early Music Festival 2023 Roots & Branches: Choral Music of the Bach Family TreeFriday 24 March 8pmSaint Mary's Cathedral, LimerickRoots & Branches,...

10/03/2023

Can't wait to see you there! A weekend full of early music! Held in Belltable and St. Mary's Cathedral from the 24 to the 26th of March! 🎶🎟️ Check the prog...

27/02/2023

When the client drops in a “oh, you might look at the harp when you get done with the piano??” Everyday’s a school day. Now I can tune harps apparently…and yes, admittedly the lever is a little overkill, but it’s all I had.

06/02/2023

New Bass strings! Very satisfying!

27/01/2023

Bridge recapping.

22/11/2022

School Time! Continuous skill improvement and mentorship is sometimes a challenge in our field - here I’m practicing putting on a new bridge cap by making a small model of a soundboard, a bridge, a hitch pin rail and pin block. The cap will soon be put to correct height, drilled for bridge pins and notched, ready for stringing! A wonderful online course courtesy of Ken Eschete of Bentside Arts in Spokane, Washington.

10/11/2022

Great two days on a recording session for ebullient and vivacious and friends, keeping in tune on her harpsichord, all at the legendary studios in Dublin. Fabulous talent in action, in front of the mic and the mixing desk, really fun to play a small part in it.

20/09/2022

https://limetreetheatre.ie/events/the-eternal-flame/

27/01/2022

Preach it, Rushworth & Dreaper...this is a business practice I can get behind! The thoughts from manufacturers in 1930s England. This is admittedly very excessive for most players, but it contains an interesting point - by and large, in a steady environment, stable pianos tuned frequently actually hold each tuning for longer, so you technically get more value for money, AND youkeep your piano sounding at its best and most true.

16/12/2021

Getting ready for Annual Christmas concert at St Jospeh’s Catholic Church, Limerick tonight. Tuner by day, tenor by night. Still tickets available http://ancorchoir.com/

08/10/2021

Sometimes it’s more hammering than tuning!! If your piano sounds this bad, you have loose tuning pins which need to be hammered in for more secure purchase. Then the tuning commences!

05/10/2021

Getting some nerdy nerdy key weighing on. This action is quite heavy to play, so some analysis is helpful to determine how and where it is heavy to see how we can lighten it. We weigh hammers, keys, and action parts to get a full picture, and then plot a remedy.

30/03/2021

What a nice way to celebrate World Piano Day - I get to open a brand new action from Steinway in Hamburg. Like a super expensive surprise pressie! Pictured is the old one we are replacing...and the nice to see the new one fits snugly!

20/03/2021

Calling Fans of Early Music. Along with many excellent concerts today and tomorrow, the festival also features a film documenting the restoration of a Klop Harpsichord which I jointly worked on with Aiden Scanlon in my workshop here in Limerick late 2020. https://limerickearlymusic.com/lemf-festival-programme/

2021 Inaugural Festival Programme Welcome! We’re thrilled to have you joining us for the inaugural Limerick Early Music Festival. The easiest way to follow the day’s events is to like our page as all our online events will be posted there and will be going live at their scheduled times ...

04/03/2021

Signs of music life beginning again. Delighted to be getting this lovely Yamaha at the in top shape in advance of rehearsals for Defying Gravity - A Musical Celebration of Women for . , best of luck on the night!

22/12/2020

Delighted to be adding my tenor warblings to this endeavour. If you have to donate some money this season, this is a worthy place.

This year, we sing for Focus Ireland: masked, socially distant, in a cold carpark but with hearts full of song and hope in this difficult year. Please give w...

17/12/2020

Some highlights of our harpsichord refurbishment that was just installed today at Limerick School of Music. Soundboard repair, split side panels replaced and finished, new hardware, new leg, repair to rose, some fresh jacks, regulation, voicing..a great new addition to Limerick music scene.