Who Are We?
Reyburn Piano Service, Inc. has developed specialized software for the piano service business since 1983.
Dean, Nate, Carl, Fred, Dave and most RCT distributors and teachers are "RPT," Registered Piano Technician
members of the
Piano Technicians Guild
and full
time piano tuner-technicians with many years of professional tuning experience.
Mission Statement
RPS, Inc.'s goal is to to raise the global standard for piano service by providing the professional piano technician with the best productivity enhancing tuning tools.
Dean Reyburn passed his RPT exams in 1978 and has 30+ years tuning experience. He has served on the PTG Examinations and Test Standards Committee since 1996 and acts as Advisor. Dean has 12 years experience as concert tuner for the Grand Rapids Symphony and DeVos Hall in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He was the technician for the local Steinway and Yamaha dealers for many years and tuned for numerous concert and popular music artists. Dean attended Moody Bible Institute in Chicago from 1976 to 1978 where he majored in electronics and learned piano technology from Virgil Smith, RPT and Robert Carbaugh (and met his wife Marty). Dean is a self-taught Software Engineer with 25 years experience programming in more languages and computer platforms than he'll admit. He enjoys kayaking and scuba-diving in his spare time.
Nate trained in piano technology both with Dean (his dad) and is a graduate of the prestigious North Bennet Street School two year Piano Technology course in Boston Massachusetts, and passed his RPT exams in 2008. Nate's passions are not only for piano tech but for making tools for the trade, including the Reyburn CyberHammer, the industry's finest impact tuning hammer. Nate and his wife Bethann live in Cedar Springs Michigan where he tunes, repairs and rebuilds pianos. He now teaches basic CyberTuner and impact hammer use. Nate and Bethann enjoy paintball, hiking, kayaking, and other outdoor sports.
Carl has been a piano technician in Los Angeles since 1972, passed his RPT
exams in 1978 and has 34 years tuning experience. He studied aural tuning with
David Safir and learned repair, regulation and voicing skills in David's shop
at Pianos Wholesale. Carl tuned aurally only until 1979 and has been
integrating both aural and electronic tuning since taking an ear opening class from
Steve Fairchild. He studied math and computers eons ago at UC Berkeley and
is a member of the RCT Development Team. He was a technician for local Yamaha
dealers and has tuned for many concerts and recording sessions. Carl has
chaired and served on numerous National PTG Committees and is a past President
of the California State Conference.
Fred taught Historical Musicology at the college level before being smitten
by the piano bug. He became an RPT in 1972. For most of his career, he
combined home service with college and university work. He bought his first
impact hammer in 1974 and has been impacting ever since. He has taught many
impact hammer classes including at the 1990 Dallas Convention. He has an
interest in how we use our bodies to do piano work and has taught classes on
movement for Piano Techs. Fred is a member of the Baltimore Chapter.
Dave has been a Registered Piano Technician member Piano Technicians Guild (PTG)
since 1976 and an instructor at PTG International Convention Technical Institutes.
Dave is a specialist in historical tuning patterns (temperaments) and tunes/services
pianos built since 1830 in
Smithsonian Institution Musical Instrument collection
including the Piano 300 exhibit.
Dave is also concert tuner-technician at several venues throughout Washington DC area
and has colloborated on over a dozen CD recordings as tuner-technician including a
Grammy nominated (Best Chamber Music category) recording of Brahms and
Schumann works for Piano and Cello performed by Lambert Orkis, pianist,
Anner Bylsma, cellist. Sony Classical SK 68249
(Paderewski Steinway piano from Smithsonian Collection tuned with RCT using
Best Broadwood well temperament of 1885).
Dave and his wife Nancy live in Silver Springs Maryland
See the classes page more information on upcoming Reyburn CyberTuner classes
Links to interesting Piano related places on the web.