About Reyburn Pianoworks

The Reyburn family has been active in the piano tuning, repair and rebuilding trades for over 45 years. Our skills include two generations of RPT’s, three avid & skilled woodworkers, and engineers covering software, materials, mechanical, computer, network, and electrical engineering skills, not to mention one expert machinist. We are also a family of musicians, everyone having taken years of piano, and play various instruments including (but not limited to) clarinet, harp, harmonica, piano, saxophone, ukulele, viola, and violin.

We are constantly engaged in the piano's centuries-old technical culture at the highest level and work hard to preserve and enhance it by utilizing a blend of old-world craftsmanship and today's most cutting-edge technology and materials.

Dean and Nate Reyburn, RPTs (Registered Piano Technicians with the Piano Technicians Guild) are experienced and professional piano technicians working not only as concert level technicians but supply the highest quality tools to the piano technician trade. In addition to piano tuning, regulation and rebuilding, Reyburn Pianoworks’ keyboard building tradition is trusted by many of the world’s most highly regarded musical institutions, concert venues, recording studios and piano rebuilders for expertise in the design and fabrication of custom piano actions for their most prized vintage instruments.

  • Dean Reyburn, RPT spent decades as the Steinway and Yamaha Concert & Artist piano technician for West Michigan. Dean was also concert tuner for DeVos Hall and the Grand Rapids Symphony in West Michigan for many years. An avid woodworker since high school and fine cabinet maker, Dean’s expertise is in keyboard and action geometry, design, and restoring grand piano actions and has 40 plus years experience working on pianos. Dean is a master key maker at, and manages the Reyburn Pianoworks keyboard manufacturing shop. Dean is also lead software engineer for Reyburn CyberTuner. Dean makes his home in both Cedar Springs, Michigan (with two or more pianos) and Nokomis Florida with his wife Marty.

  • Aaron Reyburn served 8 years with the US Marines where he made Sargent and his MOS was LAAD gunner and US embassy security guard. Aaron is an artist, musician and skilled woodworker with many years experience. Aaron works as a journeyman keyboard maker for RPW and has had woodworking training at the prestigious North Bennett Street School (NBSS) in Boston. Aaron is a PTG Associate Member and is working toward RPT status. He is also a CAD (computer aided design) and CNC (computer numeric control) expert operator. Aaron lives in Cedar Springs, Michigan.

  • Nate Reyburn, RPT is a graduate of North Bennet Street School’s prestigious two year piano technology course in Boston and has 17 years experience working on pianos. Nate has expertise in CAD (Computer Aided Design), materials, and mechanical engineering and makes piano tuning tools for the trade - see www.reyburntools.com. In addition to servicing his own piano clientele, Nate is a skilled woodworker and machinist and runs his own shop separate from Reyburn Pianoworks in Cedar Springs, Michigan. Nate helps out as a keyboard maker in RPW as needed. Nate lives in Kent City Michigan with his wife Bethann and three daughters.

  • Andrew Reyburn has two bachelors degrees in both Network Engineering Technology and Electrical Engineering from Ferris State University. Having just graduated from his second degree. Andrew is the RPW shop’s stack expert, handling most of the Steinway stack builds. Andrew als works full time in the RPW shop supporting our computers, network and electrical systems including a number of custom pneumatic and other machines, and as a general shop hand. Andrew lives in Cedar Springs, Michigan.

  • David Hughes, RPT is one of the premier piano rebuilders in the USA and is a consultant to RPW. David has extensive experience installing new keysets with a number of makers. For the last 20 years he has been installing a new keyset with each and every rebuild. David has been instrumental in helping improve the quality of our keyset product. His suggestions have helped increase accuracy of a number of specific manufacturing processes such as matching the keyset to the stack, and many other areas. David tunes, repairs and rebuilds pianos in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

  • John Dewey has been rebuilding Steinway action stacks for 4 decades. John is a consultant to RPW on Steinway action stack rebuilding and brass rail replacement. RPW purchased John’s action stack business in August 2020 and has been using his amazing stack rebuild system ever since. John is semi-retired and lives in Illinois.

    Reyburn Pianoworks is a wholly owned subsidiary of Reyburn Piano Service, Inc.