Practical Piano Tuning Beginners Certification Exam

Welcome to the Prime Piano Practical Piano Tuning Beginners Certification Exam

This exam is a structured assessment to evaluate the foundational practical skills and knowledge required to tune a piano effectively. This certification is offered to beginners who have completed the Prime Piano Practical Piano Tuning for Beginners course. It serves as a formal recognition of a student’s ability to perform basic piano tuning tasks, ensuring that they are competent in the essential practical techniques needed to maintain a piano. All questions in this exam are based on the course that you have just completed.

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This is a multiple choice exam. Choose the best answer from the choices given.

“The Piano Keyboard”

1. How many keys are there in a regular acoustic piano?
a) 88 Keysb) 61 Keysc) 49 Keys

2. How many notes are there in one octave?
a) 8 Notesb) 12 Notesc) 24 Notes

3. What note is the missing in this series? C, C♯, D,____, E, F, F♯, G, A♭, A, B♭, B
a) D♭b) E♭c) E♯

4. Is D♯ and E♭ the same note on the piano?
a) Yesb) No

5. The keys of a regular acoustic piano starts from A0 to what key?
a) C6b) C7c) C8

6. What note and note number is also called the “Middle C”?
a) C4b) C3c) C5

7. How many white keys in one octave?
a) 6 White Keysb) 7 White Keysc) 8 White Keys

8. How many black keys in one octave?
a) 5 Black Keysb) 4 Black Keysc) 3 Black Keys

9. Name the white key located to the left of a group of two black keys?
a) Note Ab) Note Bc) Note C

10. Name the white key located to the left of a group of three black keys?
a) Note Fb) Note Gc) Note A

“About Your Tools”

11. What tool is used to turn the tuning pins?
a) Tuning Hammerb) PAPP'S Clip Mutec) Temperament Strip

12. What type of mute to use when setting up the temperament octave?
a) Rubber Muteb) PAPP'S Clip Mutec) Temperament Strip

13. Are there strict rules on how to use the rubber mutes?
a) Yesb) Maybec) No

14. The PAPP’S Mute or Clip Mute is designed to mute the bass strings.
a) Falseb) True

15. From the note that you are tuning, where do you insert the Clip Mute?
a) Between the 1st and 2nd hammerheadb) Between the 2nd and 3rd hammerheadc) Between the 3rd and 4th hammerhead

16. The Clip Mute can be inserted at both sides of the note being tuned.
a) Trueb) False

17. What is the optimal position of the tuning hammer while tuning a piano?
a) 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. (Clock Scale)b) 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. (Clock Scale)c) 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. (Clock Scale)

18. Your forearm should be positioned parallel to the body of the piano.
a) Trueb) False

19. The note key that you are tuning should be at the edge of your left hip.
a) Falseb) True

20. In this course, only when do we use the digital tuning device?
a) To tune the Temperament Octave onlyb) To tune the Temperament and extend octavesc) To tune the whole piano

“Piano Tuning”

21. Which is the correct “Tuning Routine”?
a) HIT – TURN – TURN – LET GOb) HIT – TURN – LET GO & HITc) HIT – TURN – HIT & LET GO

22. The temperament strip is applied from which note up to what note?
a) D3 to D4b) D3 to C#4c) D4 to D5

23. What do we call an out-of-tune sound quality?
a) Acceptable Soundb) Clean Soundc) Dirty Sound

24. Which of the samples below is a “Clean Sound”?

Sample A

Sample B

a) Sample Ab) Sample Bc) None

25. Setting up the temperament octave, which string do you tune first?
a) Left Stringb) Center Stringc) Right String

26. Is tuning the temperament octave just in the “Note Zone” acceptable?
a) Nob) Yesc) Maybe

27. Which illustration below shows “Equal Temperament”?

Illustration A

Illustration B

a) Illustration Ab) Illustration Bc) Both

28. Why is the illustration below a “Wrong Setup”?

a) Tuning does not have the same Pictureb) All notes should be in the Note Zonec) All notes should be in the Acceptable Zone