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I highly recommend Kirsten Lawson as a competent, reliable piano tuner and an accomplished  pianist.  She has tuned our Kemble-Yamaha piano for more than fifteen years. After her tuning, the notes are clear and bright and the chords ring.  It's a little like feeling your clean teeth after brushing following a sticky meal of cheese and pasta.  I depend on her patience, independence, and good humor.

—Marke Talley


I have worked with Kirsten for about 10 years and have found that they are the best tuner and technician in the area.  They have helped me with jobs both small and large, including tuning my personal piano to both equal and historical temperaments, restoring a water damaged pinblock, regulating my grandmother's antique piano, and providing regular maintenance for the Steinway at St. Stephen's church in Espanola.  Kirsten is highly skilled and holds to excellent standards of work.  I would not hire anyone else to care for my piano.”

—Dove Woeltjen

“Kirsten Lawson has been a piano teacher to our children for several years. These lessons have been both part of school enrichment activities as well as private lessons in her home. Kirsten isa kind and patient teacher with a natural ability to mold her style to the level of the student.

We have witnessed the ease with which she handles the short attention span of a 7-year-old,and how she grows expectations of a maturing adolescent. Kirsten has an open and welcoming presence, has always made our family feel welcome, and patiently navigates multiple complex schedules for the benefit of her students. Our children’s lives have been enhanced by both Kirsten’s skill as a piano teacher, and her gracious and generous personality.”

—Drs. Brian and Laura Lansrud-López