In 1996, Sam and\u00a0Joel Haasenritter, began a two-year\u00a0apprenticeship with a third generation piano shop and later supplemented it with academic studies in piano technology.\u00a0 They both graduated with highest honors in 1999 and co-founded Sound Piano Services, Inc.\u00a0 Then, in 2000, the brothers passed the Piano Technicians Guild\u2019s demanding examinations to become Registered Piano Technicians.\u00a0 Over the next several years, they attended regional and national PTG\u00a0conventions, completed two week-long training seminars (including one with Yamaha) and secured two, phenomenal, Steinway-trained technicians as mentors.\u00a0 2005 was particularly noteworthy as both Sam and Joel spent three intense weeks training in Vienna at the world-renowned B\u00f6sendorfer\u00a0factory.\u00a0 And in 2008, they expanded by establishing Haasenritter Piano Service, Inc.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0Following in the footsteps of other renowned piano families, such as the Steinway\u2019s, each brother has focused on differing aspects of the piano industry, in addition to mastering concert piano maintenance.\u00a0 Joel has toured five piano factories, including B\u00f6sendorfer in Vienna and Mason & Hamlin in Massachusetts.\u00a0 In 2008, he spent one week training at Steinway, New York.\u00a0 He is the concert technician for the Cobb Symphony Orchestra when performing at the Murray Center and has provided backup concert services numerous times for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.\u00a0\u00a0 Sam, on the other hand, has focused his energies on studying high-end rebuilding and designing tools to increase a piano technician\u2019s efficiency and accuracy.\u00a0 Lately, he has been engaged in writing the curriculum for the Octave Worth of Piano Knowledge<\/span> seminar series, designed\u00a0to educate the musical community about harnessing the piano\u2019s and<\/span> the pianist\u2019s full potential.\u00a0<\/p>\n Currently, Sam and Joel provide high-quality piano service in Atlanta, Georgia.\u00a0 Churches and colleges that trust their pianos to the duo include Peachtree Presbyterian, Peachtree Road United Methodist, First Presbyterian Church of Atlanta, La Grange College, Agnes Scott College and Oglethorpe University.\u00a0\u00a0Even the discriminating tastes of concert artists, such as Elton John, Andreas Klein, George Winston, Andre Watts, Donald Runnicles, Hillary Hahn, Valentina Lifitsa, and Alexei Kuznetsoff have been satisfied by Joel’s and Sam\u2019s attention to detail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In 1996, Sam and\u00a0Joel Haasenritter, began a two-year\u00a0apprenticeship with a third generation piano shop and later supplemented it with academic studies in piano technology.\u00a0 They both graduated with highest honors in 1999 and co-founded Sound Piano Services, Inc.\u00a0 Then, in 2000, the brothers passed the Piano Technicians Guild\u2019s demanding examinations to become Registered Piano Technicians.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":387,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hpianoservice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/431"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hpianoservice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hpianoservice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hpianoservice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hpianoservice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hpianoservice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":432,"href":"https:\/\/hpianoservice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/431\/revisions\/432"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hpianoservice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hpianoservice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}