Andrew Wedman, RPT

I am a Registered Piano Technician located in Nelson, in interior BC. As well as serving the West Kootenays, I come through the South Okanagan every two or three months, and can service everything in between.

I received my Piano Technology Certificate at the University of Western Ontario in 2009. I did an apprenticeship under Nikolai Svinarenko at Paul Hahn & Co. in Toronto tuning and rebuilding pianos. I am also a Registered Piano Technician through the Piano Technicians Guild.

I have my ARCT  through the Royal Conservatory of Music in piano performance and studied piano and Music Theory at Capilano College (now University) and McGill University. I am an active musician who has performed and recorded experimental and electronic music in Canada, the US and Europe since 1999.

I tune by ear with the aid of an electronic tuning app as a tool for setting A440 and large pitch corrections. I am trained and have experience in full piano restoration and rebuilding.

I am honoured to be helping with John Pengelly’s clients upon his semi-retirement in Nelson.

I currently tune, or have tuned for:

Venues: The Capitol Theatre, Nelson; Selkirk College Music Department, Nelson; Kootenay Festival of the Arts; Nelson Overture Concert Society; The Bailey Theatre, Trail; Kaslo Concert Society; Penticton Academy of Music; The Tranzac, Toronto; University of Toronto Music Department, Toronto; Elgin Winter Garden Theatre, Toronto.

Pianists: Don Henley, John Kameel Farah, Ian Parker, Charles Richard-Hamelin, Cheng Duo, Dr. Paul Crawford, John Cougar Mellencamp, Metric, Jason Collet (of the Broken Social Scene), Justin Glibbery, Residence of the President of the University of Toronto, Marilyn Lerner, Jennifer Castle, Tania Gill, Jean Martin at Barnyard Records, Gaberiel Levine (of Black Ox Orkestar), James Rolfe (composer), Ryan Driver, and more…

Me in my younger years saying things on TV that are, for the most part, correct: