Serving Southern California's pianos for over 20 years...
Dennis DeGroat Ashly is a Registered Tuner/Technician with the Piano Technicians Guild, the only
organization that tests and qualifies Piano tuners in the States. He has been a member of the Guild for the
past 28 years, serving as a past president of his chapter as well as being an officer in various other
capacities over the years.
Raised to a great extent in a mom and pop piano shop in Kansas City Missouri, he had an early
indoctrination to the inner workings of the piano, doing his homework in the back while mom and dad
attended to the business. Dennis' mother specialized in replacing key tops on older pianos and keeping the
books while dad did much of the general repair, refinishing and moving. They had tuner/technicians doing
the tuning, regulation and voicing. Dennis recalls being called down quite regularly for being too noisy while
they were trying to work. Still he thinks much of his natural ability at tuning was derived from listening to
literally hundreds of pianos being tuned over the course of his elementary years.
Thinking that learning to tune pianos might be a great way to work his way through college, Dennis took a
job as an apprentice to a master tuner/ technician in Texas. A couple of years later and probably still a bit
green he embarked on a life long career studying and practicing the art of piano technology, soon becoming
a concert level tuner/ technician in his own rite and establishing himself as a much sought after and often
referred service person.
Now with 30 plus years in the trade he still takes great pleasure in breathing life back into these
most wonderful of instruments, as well as greeting and meeting the needs of his customers.
organization that tests and qualifies Piano tuners in the States. He has been a member of the Guild for the
past 28 years, serving as a past president of his chapter as well as being an officer in various other
capacities over the years.
Raised to a great extent in a mom and pop piano shop in Kansas City Missouri, he had an early
indoctrination to the inner workings of the piano, doing his homework in the back while mom and dad
attended to the business. Dennis' mother specialized in replacing key tops on older pianos and keeping the
books while dad did much of the general repair, refinishing and moving. They had tuner/technicians doing
the tuning, regulation and voicing. Dennis recalls being called down quite regularly for being too noisy while
they were trying to work. Still he thinks much of his natural ability at tuning was derived from listening to
literally hundreds of pianos being tuned over the course of his elementary years.
Thinking that learning to tune pianos might be a great way to work his way through college, Dennis took a
job as an apprentice to a master tuner/ technician in Texas. A couple of years later and probably still a bit
green he embarked on a life long career studying and practicing the art of piano technology, soon becoming
a concert level tuner/ technician in his own rite and establishing himself as a much sought after and often
referred service person.
Now with 30 plus years in the trade he still takes great pleasure in breathing life back into these
most wonderful of instruments, as well as greeting and meeting the needs of his customers.
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