Back in the '60s...

Just after Bill got his undergraduate degree, for an adventure, he booked out as a dinner and cocktail pianist playing fine 5-Star hotel dining rooms throughout the U.S. 

He's played engagements at the St. Louis Playboy Club and Chase-Park Plaza Hotel, New York's Waldorf-Astoria, Los Angeles' Beverly Wilshire, Chicago's Palmer House.

After three years of travel, it was time for him to settle down. But he has continued playing his style of light cocktail jazz -- the music of Gershwin, Kern, Mancini, Sinatra, Bennett, Torme, show tunes and the like -- for receptions, business functions, dinner parties and weddings. 

Here's why and how he learned to be a piano technician...

As he traveled, it became apparent to him that the hotel management usually had no way of knowing whether the piano tuner they used could tune or not!  And it stood to reason.  The manager wasn't the pianist, Bill was, for goodness sakes. 

And yet he was depending on the hotel manager to get something done that the manager probably hadn't the ear to do. 

You see, lots of piano tuners picked from the Yellow Pages come with tin ears!.  So what they do is to take an out-of-tune piano and tune it so it will still be out-of-tune, just in a different way.  Ouch!  

So to save his sanity, once while he was playing a gig in Orlando, Florida, he took a course at nearby Rollins College in piano tuning and repair. 

Ah, the perfect solution! 

And he's always been glad that he did.  And his clients are, too...especially those who are professional pianists and teachers.  You will be, too, if you call him..

Piano Tuning: $95 - cash or check

No repairs are included in the price of tuning.

To BookTunings

Call: 214 503-8563

Email: dallaspianotuner@aol.com

Notice:  Because of the rising cost of travel, we limited our service to Dallas, Irving, McKinney, Garland, Mesquite, Rowlett and Plano.

We do not service hotel pianos. 

Patty and Bill Cherry

Piano Instructions....

Patty's been a fine classical pianist for many years.  She is also a harpist.

She has had remarkable success teaching both children and adults. 

Beginners and those with inter-mediate skills learn quickly.

All lessons are private...one on one, and are given in her Lake Highlands home studio on her  large Baldwin Grand.

All lessons are weekly, and can be scheduled during afternoons or early evenings.  That way almost everyone can be accomodated.  No contracts are required.

Piano Lessons in Our Studio: $20

per half-hour.

For Lessons in the Student's home, please call for price quote.

To Contact Patty:

214 503-8563 or email

emmielou3@aol.com