Are Piano Tuners Becoming Obsolete?

I doubt it.

There are no costs of this "system" included, but I imagine it to be quite high. At least the "sustainers" will be high.

The next problem I see is the use of electric current to change the temperature of the string to raise/lower the pitch. With heating as the only option, the piano can only be tuned downward. 99% of the time, that's already the problem with a piano's tuning. There also has to be a limit to the amount of "tuning" the system can do, perhaps 50 cents (being generous). The fact that the technology is applied to a normal wrest plank with steel tuning pins has me worried on two levels. First, using the tuning pin as the heat source the first rule of piano ownership is violated. Avoid changing rapidly changing temperatures and keeping a constant humidity level: Here the system directly heats pins to an average of 95 degrees, the pin block is heating up as well as drying out.

Certainly it's a technology in its infancy, but I can't imagine it really changing the acoustic piano industry. At minimum, I'd imagine the wrest plank will need to be replaced with something along the lines of Mason & Hamlin's old "screw stringer" system. Essentially a bolt and jam nut arrangement eliminating the wooden wrest plank (or at least it's function in holding the pins).

I could also see a system that uses planetary gearing and small but high-torque motors to tune the piano. I see that as a more reliable, long-term solution, but also incredibly cost prohibitive,

Then the best you could hope for is a tuning based on a successful hand tuning.

Adding several thousand dollars to the price of a piano for the sake of technology, won't win over buyers for the acoustic market. I also don't see a world where concert pianists will want a "plug-in" either for the piano or the piano tuning system.

I think the specialty job of tuning is safe.

... at least for now.

there are an excellent kind of blind piano tuners in the main for 2 motives: that's a job that they could do with out sight and different senses grow to be more suitable acute even as one is lost. although blindness isn't a qualification, in spite of if the shortcoming of one experience heightens the others that doesn't advise that listening to is unavoidably pitch precise. also, you'll discover blind tuners and voicers, yet not too many doing some thing of the rebuilding or regulation artwork. i have were given 20/25 in both eyes and pushing 50 ... i do not imagine that qualifies as blind.

as long as there are real pianos there will be piano tuners. the difrence between a real piano and a key bord are so vast that people that know what they are doing will always prefer to get a real piano. so, since they will get real pianos there will always be piano tuners.

If you are looking for one then i suggest you look in you phone book.

I'm thinking about becoming a piano tuner, at least learning how to tune pianos so i wont ever have to paye thouse prises=)

Definitely no. It is still best to have a piano worked out with the hands of professionals, only if there are no available tuners especially in my area, then a diy enthusiast can try it, particulary if the piano is not that precious that you won't regret it much if things gone awry.

I think that as long as there are pianos, there will always be piano tuners.

That video is super interesting!!

The best of luck to you.

No. There are still a lot of real pianos that require tuning.