Clem Fortuna, RPT

Registered Piano Technician with the Piano Technicians Guild

Clem Fortuna has been tuning pianos since the 1970's. He graduated from Piano Technology Inc in Southfield, MI, and has worked for Abbey Piano Co, Midwest Piano Distributors, Piano Nation and Evola Music, and has been a member of the Piano Technicians Guild since 1987, serving at various times as chapter president, vice president and treasurer. He currently owns a piano shop in Grosse Pointe Park, MI. Clem is also a self taught classical pianist, and a composer, primarily of music using alternative tunings.

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Clem Fortuna
Fortuna Piano
313-527-8863

You might think all piano tuners are about the same, but Clem Fortuna has an obsession with tunings — emphasis on the “s.” Sure, like his peers he spends most of his time fixing the action of keyboards, replacing hammers and returning neglected uprights to a standard A=440 vibrations per second. But Fortuna recognizes that other eras and regions have had different notions. Want a Victorian era tuning? How about a Pythagorean one? How about just intonation, which goes against the last 150 years of Western music? In fact, he’s even composed music for a tuning system of 41 microtones to the octave instead of the usual 12. Maybe that’s not what you need him to do with your piano, but just in case …

Clem is working on writing an extensive explanation of tuning systems:

Understanding Musical Pitch