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CPS Founder Jeffrey Cappelli is a Core Faculty Member at the Chicago School for Piano Technology (CSPT). CSPT provides full professional training for those who wish to prepare for a career in piano technology. Jeff teaches core courses in regulation and repair.

 

About CSPT:

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The mission of The Chicago School for Piano Technology is to provide complete foundation skills for aspiring piano technicians who may then enter into the life-long task of mastering all of the technical aspects of the acoustic piano as a whole instrument.

 

The piano is a marvelous and intricate musical instrument, designed to be transparent to the player for the creation of music and joy. The piano technician's job is to ensure that the piano is maintained in a condition such that performers find no obstacle to their endeavor. This can only be begun with a year or two of intensive hands-on instruction. Therefore, it is our mission to teach the basic and advanced hands-on skills every piano technician should have in order to hear, feel, diagnose, and find solutions to the obstacles that occur in the piano. In addition, the course of instruction will provide the student with the ability to carry on their own business as a technician/tuner, or, as well, to begin the process of becoming proficient in full rebuilding and restoration.

 

Piano Technician or Piano Tuner? 

 

It is our belief that one cannot realistically be just a piano tuner. The modern piano has over 12,000 parts, most of which are wood, felt, leather, paper, and some bits of metal. It is a wholly organic instrument, with all of the parts unified in order for it to work properly. We believe that it is a fundamental service to our clients not only to have the technical expertise necessary to address the varied parts of the whole instrument, but also to have the common sense to know both our limits and the limits of any given piano. The aim of The Chicago School for Piano Technology is to create the "whole" technician with as few limits as possible.