Piano World

Piano World began as All About Pianos! in January of 1996.
I began receiving more and more email every day asking for help and making suggestions.
This lead me to post more information which brought more people to the site.
I still do 99.9% of the programming, content, answering the emails, etc.

Now, thanks to feedback from our wonderful visitors and your help in spreading the word about this web site, Piano World, has won a number of awards and continues to rise to the top of the major search engines and to receive good reviews.

And so we continue to grow, adding new content, revising the design and , as always, answering questions for our valued visitors (over 1000 pages now).

Our World Famous Piano Forums have become the most popular section of Piano World. Piano and music-related posts now number in the hundreds of thousands and continue to grow every day. The forums have developed into a wonderful community of people who share a love for the piano.

A group of our forums members enjoying themselves at our 2006 Mason & Hamlin Piano Factory Tour.
(That's me, front row, far left)

Our goal is to help people locate information about their piano, buy or sell a piano or just have some fun talking about and learning about pianos.

Frank Baxter, the host/Webmaster/owner of Piano World and PianoSupplies.com (that's me) has been tuning and repairing pianos since 1969.
A native of Nahant, MA, (now living in north central CT) Frank started with an old family music store in Lynn, MA called Curtis Music Store.

Curtis Music began in 1890 and specialized in exceptional customer service.
Apprenticing under Raymond Curtis, a master technician who once built pianos in the Chickering factory, Frank gained invalueable experience in how a craftsman approaches his art. When Raymond retired, Frank continued his education with Ramond's son-in-law, George Cole, a registered PTG tuner, a Mentor and a friend (now also retired).
From there, he went on to start his own piano tuning business, opened his own full line music store (in Newport, RI), played in bands and created All About Pianos! and now Piano World, PianoSupplies.com, and Wiki Piano.

Frank is also an expert in SEO/SEM and Ecommerce, with his own consulting business called SEO Experts To Go, www.SeoExpertsToGo.com and The Ecommerce Guru

He also started taking Flying Lessons before running out of money.

Our Directory/Site Map gives an overview of what's available on Piano World.

If you are a professional in the piano industry, please see our Advertising Opportunities

You can find our Contact Information Here

And our Press Room Here

Piano World is a proud member of these fine organizations:
NAMM , the National Association of Music Merchants
NPF, (the National Piano Foundation)
MTNA, the Music Teachers National Association
NPTA, the National Piano Travelers Association
The PTG, Piano Technician's Guild

Frank Baxter ... Webmaster