A Day with Wim Blees
Saturday, May 16, 2026 9:00am - 5:00pm
Dallas College Brookhaven Campus
3939 Valley View Ln, Farmers Branch, TX 75244
Brookhaven Directions
Topics: Myths and Facts of pitch adjustments, Setting fees and using time efficiently, Tuning a spinet like a concert grand, and Appraising Pianos. He also has a short presentation of what life is like tuning pianos in Hawaii.
Please Register by May 11th
Lunch will be provided. Seminar cost is $25 for PTG members, $75 for non-PTG Members.
Link to Registration
Link to Wim Blees Registration on Google Forms
Wim Blees, RPT, started working on pianos in his dad’s shop when he was 12 years old. After he graduated from college and taught band and chorus for six years, he started his full time piano service business in 1977 in St. Louis, Missouri. Then from 2001 – 2007 he was the piano technician for the University of Alabama. In 2007 he and his wife moved to Hawaii, and in August of 2021 he retired from full time piano work and moved to Florida.
Wim has given lectures at over 55 PTG seminars and convention on a wide variety of subjects including tuning, repairing, rebuilding and business. He has served on the PTG Board of Directors as the Central West Vice President and was a CTE for many years. In addition to writing numerous articles for the Piano Technicians Journal, he is the author of: the business of piano tuning: a guide to marketing, managing, promoting, buying and selling a piano service business. in 2021 Wim was awarded Member of Note at the PTG convention in Orlando.