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Pianos and Music
Johannes Bergmark

Piano tuner and technician

Phone: +46 73 789 1402



[Bergmark is grinding the sound board of a grand piano where it's difficult to reach!]

Grinding the soundboard of a grand piano where it's difficult to reach!
(Action photo from the education in Leksand. Not to be taken seriously!)
Photo: © Göran Kunstbergs




Tuning a grand I do piano tunings, action regulations, repairs on and give advice about your grand or upright piano. If you have old or historical keyboard instruments (square pianos, harpsichord, spinet or clavichord) or electro-acoustic ones like the clavinet or electric pianos, I also know much about these.

A piano tuning normally costs 1000 SEK.

I live and work in Stockholm, sweden, but sometimes I also visit other places.

Nowadays, most people that call me, ask if I can give a price for, or buy, the piano that they want to sell. My reply is always the same: you usually never get what the piano is worth if you sell it. It's the buyer's market and the buyer can easily find perfectly useful pianos that only cost the transport. I have never dealt with selling and buying (nor transporting) pianos and have currently no plans to start, so I refer to musical instrument shops for those questions.

Repairing damper action on a grand Educations:
1991-92. At the time sweden's only education for piano technicians, Pianoteknikerlinjen (now closed down) at Hantverkets Folkhögskola (later changed to Företagarnas Folkhögskola but nowadays Leksand Folkhögskola) in Leksand. Teacher: Mats Ferner.
1992-96. At the time Scandinavia's only piano- and cembalo builders' education that leads to a a german Qualifying Piece of Work (Gesellenbrief): Musikk Instrument Akademiet in norway (now also closed down). Teachers: Odd Aanstad, Knut Tore Bakken and Dr Alastair Laurence (the very piano tuner of the Brittish queen), who had his own piano factory in England and now has in Norway.
My Qualifying Piece of Work (which makes me a Journeyman) was made in 1996 in Klingenthal, germany, where I also got education from the Meister Peter Schlosser, who has his own piano production. The Gesellenbrief had the character "gut bestanden", which is a good grade.

Action regulation on a grand I am also interested in historical keyboard instruments and have, among other things, built a large clavichord (18th century type) under the direction of Hans Erik Svensson and with a support from the grant fund for musical instrument technicians of the Royal Swedish Music Academy (Kungliga Musikaliska Akademien). I also built a small one in the education in norway.

If your instrument is in sweden and I don't have the time to take care of your instrument, you can find collegues among the swedish Association for Piano Tuners and -Technicians (Sveriges Pianostämmare- och -Teknikerförening).


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Updated the 19th of June, 2011.