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Chuck Terpo began his piano-tuning career in 1977 in Birmingham, Alabama under the supervision of Mr. Calvin McCormack, head technician for Forbes Piano Company. After training under Mr. McCormack for approximately one year, Chuck relocated to the San Francisco Bay area in July 1978. He began tuning pianos for Sherman Clay & Company as a private contractor in August 1978, where he met Mr. Paul Kummer. Paul worked predominantly on Steinway pianos as a contractor for Sherman Clay (Paul is currently the technician for Stanford University, where he has worked for a number of years.) Paul mentored Chuck for several years while they worked together in Sherman Clay's warehouse.

Highlights:

• 1981: Recommended for and accepted to go to the Steinway factory in New York for the Introductory Technical Program (Joe Bisceglie, instructor). Upon returning to the Bay Area he spent most of the next ten years prepping Steinway pianos in the Sherman Clay warehouse.
• 1986: Contracted as a consultant by Sherman Clay to accompany their head of merchandising for a trip to multiple South Korean piano factories. He returned in 1988 on a follow-up trip
• 1991: Accepted the position of Senior Steinway Technician at Sherman Clay in San Francisco. In September of 2002 he returned to the New York Steinway factory for the next level technical class taught by Mr. Eric Shendall.
• 1997: Traveled to Jakarta, Indonesia for the successful repair of a Steinway piano damaged in the process of shipping.
• 2003: Accepted to the Concert Tuning and Preparation class, taught by Mr. Eric Shendall at the Steinway factory. At that time he was the first Bay Area technician to be accepted into this prestigious class. Later that year, Chuck was appointed Senior Technician of the Sherman Clay Concerts and Events Services Department which supplies Steinway concert grand pianos for Steinway artists and various Northern California concert venues. From that time forward, he has performed concert tunings for some of the most renowned artists in the world.
• 2007: Contracted by Yoshi's Jazz Club to travel to the Steinway factory in Hamburg, Germany for the selection of a new Steinway concert grand piano for their new club in San Francisco, where he continues to perform all tunings and maintenance on this beautiful instrument.

The following is a partial list of artists for whom Chuck has performed concert tunings:

McCoy Tyner Ahmed Jamal Chick Corea BB King Natalie Cole Henry Butler Studio 880 Harry Connick Jr. Ben Folds Journey Bruce Hornsby The Other Ones David Benoit Dame Kiri Te Kanawa Ramsey Lewis Absolutely Music Nancy Wilson Herbie Hancock Gonzalo Reubelcabo Jack Jackson Steve Miller Rickie Lee Jones Andre Watts Charley Haden Kenny Barron George Cables Taylor Eigsti Kenny Burrell Mose Allison Lee Ritenour John Handy KD Lang Nancy Griffith

Hiromi The Eagles Van Morrison Green Day Lyle Lovett Berkeley Repertory Theatre Sonoma Jazz Healdsburg Jazz Dr. John Count Basie Orchestra Stanley Clark Al Jareau Al Green Herb Alpert Hershey Felder Mona Golabeck Bobby Hutcherson Roy Hargrove Chris Botti Cassandra Wilson Kenny Garrett Eldar Freddy Hubbard Mike Stern The Yellow Jackets Poncho Sanchez Cedar Walton George Duke Mavis Staples Randy Newman Dave Brubeck Ravi Coltrane Larry Vuckovitch Kyle Eastwood Sadao Watanabe Aimee Mann

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