Who Are We?
Reyburn Piano Service, Inc. has developed specialized software for the piano service business since 1983.
Dean, Nate, Carl, Dave and all RCT support personal and teachers are "RPT," Registered Piano Technician
members of the
Piano Technicians Guild
and full
time piano tuner-technicians with many years of professional tuning experience.
Mission Statement
RPS, Inc.'s goal is to to raise the global standard for piano service by providing the
professional piano technician with the best productivity enhancing tuning tools.
Dean Reyburn, RPT
Dean passed his PTG RPT exams in 1978. He has served on the PTG Examinations and Test Standards
Committee since 1996 and acts as Advisor and CTE skill reviewer, and is a member of the PTG Hall of Fame.
Dean has 12 years experience
as concert tuner for the Grand Rapids Symphony and DeVos Hall in Grand
Rapids, Michigan. He was the technician for the local Steinway and Yamaha
dealers for many years and tuned for numerous concert and popular
music artists. Dean attended Moody Bible Institute in Chicago from
1976 to 1978 where he majored in electronics and learned piano
technology from Virgil Smith, RPT and Robert Carbaugh (and met his
wife Marty). Dean is a self-taught Software Engineer and lead engineer on the CyberTuner project with 35 years
experience programming in more languages and computer platforms than
he'll admit. He enjoys tennis, biking and hiking in his spare time.
Nate Reyburn, RPT
Nate trained in piano technology both with Dean (his dad) and is a graduate of the prestigious North
Bennet Street School two year Piano Technology course in Boston Massachusetts, and passed his RPT exams
in 2008. Nate's passions are not only for piano tech but for making tools for the trade, including the
Reyburn Rigid tuning hammer and the Reyburn CyberHammer, the industry's finest impact tuning hammer. Nate constructs
the PTG's Golden Tuning Hammer award starting in 2013, the highest PTG award given.
Nate, his wife Bethann and three daughters live in Kent City, Michigan where he tunes, repairs and rebuilds pianos. Nate
and Bethann enjoy paintball, hiking, kayaking, and other outdoor sports.
Noah Reyburn
Noah trained in piano tuning briefly with Dean (his dad) but decided instead to spend 4 years serving in the US
Marine Corps where he endured two tours in Iraq and attained the rank of Sergeant. Noah graduated from Ferris State
University with a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering, Summa Cum Laude in 2013 (and a minor in Computer Science).
Noah currently works full time as an Electrical Engineer in Weidman Michigan where he lives with his wife and son Lawson.
Noah is responsible for programming maintenance and upgrades on the "CyberCloud" which is used to register users and improve
performance and reliability of CyberTuner software.
Andrew Reyburn
Andrew was trained from a very young age (before he could read) in repairing computers and has a great interest in computer networking. Andrew graduated
from Ferris State University in 2014 with an Associates degree in Computer Networking with a minor in Computer Science, he is currently
working for a wireless networking company and pursuing his Bachelors degree in Computer Networking. Andrew
has worked for Dean (his dad) as apprentice software engineer, upgrading CyberTuner for iOS code to keep it running on the
latest iOS versions and hardware. Andrew often helps at the PTG national convention exhibit booth.
Carl Lieberman, RPT
Carl has been a piano technician in Los Angeles since 1972, passed his RPT exams in 1979 and has
38 years tuning experience. He studied aural tuning with David Safir and learned repair,
regulation and voicing skills in David's shop at Pianos Wholesale. Carl tuned aurally only until
1981 and has been integrating both aural and electronic tuning since taking an ear opening class
from Steve Fairchild. He studied math and computers eons ago at UC Berkeley and is a member of
the Reyburn CyberTuner Development Team. He has worked for 3 local Yamaha dealers and has tuned f
or countless concerts and recording sessions.
David Lamoreaux, RPT
Dave has been a Registered Piano Technician member Piano Technicians Guild (PTG)
since 1976 and an instructor at PTG International Convention Technical Institutes.
Dave is a specialist in historical tuning patterns (temperaments) and tunes/services
pianos built since 1830 in Smithsonian Institution Musical Instrument collection
including the Piano 300 exhibit.
Dave is also concert tuner-technician at several venues throughout Washington DC area
and has colloborated on over a dozen CD recordings as tuner-technician including a
Grammy nominated (Best Chamber Music category) recording of Brahms and
Schumann works for Piano and Cello performed by Lambert Orkis, pianist,
Anner Bylsma, cellist. Sony Classical SK 68249
(Paderewski Steinway piano from Smithsonian Collection tuned with RCT using
Best Broadwood well temperament of 1885).
Dave and his wife Nancy live in Silver Springs Maryland
See the classes page more information on upcoming Reyburn CyberTuner classes