Piano tuners: price the whole visit - tuning, pitch raise, repairs, travel. Free, no signup.
Presets load typical starting fees. Change this to your own rate.
Over about 2 years flat, most pianos need a pitch raise before a fine tuning.
Auto-suggested when the piano is 2+ years overdue. A pitch raise is a rough pre-pass to bring the piano near A440 before the real tuning. Override as needed.
On an agreement, the piano never gets badly flat, so the pitch raise disappears.
Pick the piano type preset: Upright ($130 base fee, 90 bench minutes), Console ($130, 80), Baby grand ($160, 100), or Grand ($200, 120). Each fills the base fee and bench minutes, and both are editable as starting points, not industry standards. Enter years since the last tuning: at 2 years or more the tool auto-suggests a $60 pitch raise, a rough pre-pass that brings the whole piano up to pitch before the fine tuning, with a plain-language note you can show customers. You can edit the pitch raise to zero. The extra work card holds minor repairs dollars, voicing dollars, and regulation hours times your regulation rate ($65 default). Travel is round-trip miles at your cost per mile ($0.70 default), with a flat trip fee override: enter anything above 0 and it uses the flat fee instead of mileage. In your bar card set the target dollars per hour for your bench time ($100 default) and the service-agreement discount percent (10 default). The quote card shows a line-item breakdown, the whole-dollar quote, bench-time estimate, your effective dollars per hour net of travel, and a PRICED RIGHT, TIGHT (with the exact dollar raise), or UNDERPRICED verdict, plus the agreement price: on a twice-a-year agreement the piano never gets badly flat, so the pitch raise disappears and the discount applies.
Example only, not typical pricing. Take the upright preset: $130 base fee, 90 bench minutes. The piano is 3 years overdue, so the tool suggests the $60 pitch raise. Add $40 of minor repairs and half an hour of regulation at $65 per hour, or $32.50, plus 20 round-trip miles at $0.70, or $14. The quote is $130 plus $60 plus $40 plus $32.50 plus $14, or $276.50, shown as $277. Bench time is 90 minutes plus the 45 extra for the pitch raise plus 30 for regulation, or 165 minutes, which is 2.75 hours. Effective rate is $276.50 minus $14 travel, over 2.75 hours, or about $95 per hour: TIGHT against a $100 target, and the verdict gives the exact dollar raise. The service-agreement price is $276.50 times 0.9, or $248.85, with no pitch raise needed.
**What is a pitch raise?**
A rough pre-pass that brings the whole piano up to pitch before the real tuning. A piano left flat for years cannot be fine-tuned in one pass; the pitch raise is a separate service and a separate charge.
**Why does the pitch raise add 45 minutes to bench time?**
Because it is a second pass across all 88 keys. The tool adds it automatically so the effective hourly rate reflects the real work, not just the tuning time.
**What does the TIGHT verdict mean?**
Your effective rate lands below your target but close. The tool shows the exact dollar raise that closes the gap, so you can quote with confidence instead of guessing.
**How does the service-agreement price work?**
Your discount percent applies to the full quote, and the pitch raise is excluded, because agreement pianos get tuned twice a year and never get badly flat. It is the price you quote a standing customer.
**Are the preset fees official rates?**
No. The footer says all fees are editable starting points, not industry standards. Set them from your market, your experience, and your costs.