Kleanthis Christoforou

Piano Tunings Cy is Kleanthis Christoforou. There is no team of subcontractors and no dispatcher. You speak to the technician, he sees the instrument, and he is accountable for the result.

For an instrument that costs as much as a piano and lasts as long, that continuity matters. A technician who has tuned the same piano for eight years knows how it behaves — which notes drift first, how it responds to the room, what it will need next year.

The work spans the whole range. Most weeks include domestic uprights that have not been tuned in years, a school or conservatory contract, a repair or regulation job, and a move.

It also includes concert work — preparing and tuning instruments where the piano has to be right at eight o'clock and there is no second chance. Moving a Steinway Model D for the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra is the kind of job that sets the standard for everything else.

Not every piano is worth restoring and not every repair is worth doing. Saying so costs a job in the short term and earns the next ten in the long term.

If your instrument needs a €400 repair to be worth €300, you will be told. If it is a good piano hiding under neglect — which is more often the case than people expect — you will be told that too, along with what it will take to bring it back.

Based in Limassol, working weekly in Nicosia, Larnaca, Paphos and the Famagusta district, and in the villages in between. Travel is normally folded into the price rather than added to it.

Both Greek and English are spoken, and you will get the same clear explanation of what your piano needs in either one.