Tuning & Services
Oscar offers tuning, regulation, voicing & maintenance services for modern and historical pianos, fortepianos, harpsichords, virginals and clavichords.
Serving Boston MA, Greater New England & New York.
Please contact directly for enquiries.
Based in Boston, he spends his time primarily overseeing tuning and maintenance of the Mason & Hamlin Factory Showroom in Haverhill, MA, specializing in voicing, and taking care of a number of pianos at New England Conservatory. Occasionally he will take on a restoration project, usually in the form of a historical pianoforte or a plucked instrument.
List of Services:
Tuning, Regulation & Voicing
General diagnostics & resolution
Oddball instruments (viennese actions, screwstringers, etc.)
Institutional Services & Inventory
Instrument Selection & Condition Assessment
Concert/Recording Session Preparation & Standby
Wessell, Nickel & Gross Advanced Composite Piano Action Parts Installation
Instrument Sales & Rentals (North-East U.S.)
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He has received mentorship and training from, and not limited to:
Anthony T. McKenna
Bruce Clark
Kirk Burgett, RPT
Zackery Hardy
Dale Munschy
Paul McNulty
Charles Jackson
Mason & Hamlin
Wessell, Nickel & Gross
Academy of Fortepiano Performance Tech Workshop – Hunter, NY
(Richard Hester, Masayuki Maki)
Cornell Centre of Historical Keyboards Tech Workshop – Ithaca, NY
(Ken Walkup, Ken Eschete, Rodney Regier)
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Oscar has variously worked with institutions and artists including:
Boston College
Charles Szczepanek
Christopher Greenleaf
Daria Vasileva
Duo Fuerza
First Congregational Church, Rindge NH
Frederick Historic Piano Collection
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Isata Kanneh-Mason
Ivan Gusev
Kalos Trio
Leona Cheung
Mason & Hamlin Piano Company
Margarita Nuller
Marina Lomazov
Merrimack Valley Philharmonic Orchestra
New England Conservatory of Music
Oscar Jiang
Pao Arts Center
Powers Music School
Yi-heng Yang