Zinovy Pritsker Piano Tuner

Hey this guy is pretty damn good and tunes at an a great price. My only complaint is that I was quoted $ 90 and it turned out to be $ 150. That’s the reason for four stars. However, my piano sounds great and he did a good job. Maybe a little cranky, but, hey — who wouldn’t be when you’re tuning pianos all day.
My baby grand should be very soulful, but he tuned it bright like a Yamaha. It happens. I definitely recommend him.
He arrived at the tail end of the estimated time, which screwed with my day a little bit. So plan some extra time. He does take a little while, but if you want a good tuning, it should take a fair amount of time.
At the end of it all, my piano sounds great, perfectly in tune, gorgeously loud, and at a great price.

Hes my dad hes a perfectionist, hes the best at what he does and is not looking for an extra penny nor extra work. He will tell u like it is because he doesn’t need to waste his time or yours.

WOW, I wish I had read David H’s review before experiencing the cranky Russian myself…
Just like poor David:
1) My upright is ancient as well– 109 years sold in fact! But it sounds like a big booming adolescent when tuned, and I love my big grand upright so much, it has moved 3 times across the country for me.
2) I got my share of Zenov’s constant, hour-​long lambasting and barraging of verbal abuse and diarrhea of the mouth regarding my piano, my musicianship, my utter waste of American dollars, and the garbage– oh the heap of garbage that we (Amercians) claim in the name of love…
UNLIKE David’s experience:
Zenovy pummeled my piano, banging its parts around, wheeling it roughly across my wooden floor, and blasting its 109 yr old strings with his hammer-​head fingers, so that he could hear his tuning fork over his own tirade. Even my pets kept looking at me like, «what on earth is he doing to make the usually-​pretty sounds so terrible to bear?»
Upon handing him a check, he actually said to me, «Don’t ever call me again to tune a trashy piano!»
I got his message loud and clear… I think we all do now.

Oh, Zenovy, my cranky Russian… Why did I keep calling you to tune my piano? I admit it was the price, mostly. $ 90 is inexpensive these days, and you did a good job. My beat-​down heap of an ancient upright always sounded pretty good when you were done with it. But, oh, the abuse! the way you’d lambaste me in your broken English, how my piano was crap, a piece of sh#$$%, not worth repairing, how I couldn’t be a serious musician and own such a terrible instrument, how Americans are not serious musicians, how everything is terrible in this country, how all upright pianos are garbage, even baby grands — GARBAGE! AMERICAN FILTH! NOT FIT FOR MY TALENT! DON’T YOU KNOW WHO I AM?!? DON“TYOUKNOW WHO MY SON IS?!? YOU ARE NOT A MUSICIAN! NOTAMUSICIAN!
Well, sorry, buddy. Writing music on spec is not the most lucrative field, no matter how serious you are about it, and even if I could afford a 12′ Steinway Concert Grand, real estate is a little expensive around these here parts, and those suckers take up a fair amount of space.
Despite all your bellyaching, is seemed a mutually beneficial relationship, and one I remain shocked that you wouldn’t be interested in cultivating — in pianos, as in cars, after all, an ’86 Datsun needs more trips to the shop than a brand new BMW — but you decided to blow me off all together this afternoon.
We had an appointment for you to come at 5:00 and unstick my C3. I called your office at 5:15 and spoke to the lady always answers the phone — your wife, maybe? Your daughter? — and she said that while she had «no idea» where you were, she was «sure you were on your way». When I called again at 6, she said you were running over in your previous appointment, and unwilling to work late, so we’d have to reschedule. But you were booked the next day, too. Maybe we could squeeze you in Friday?
Forget it, Zenovy, I’ll find someone who actually wants my business.