About Mike Cook

I have been involved with pianos and music most of my life. After playing music as a young teenager with my friends and playing music in two different bands, I decided to enhance my musical knowledge. This led me to a small community college nearby where I studied music theory.

After serving in the Army, I went to work as a piano/organ salesman in my hometown of Kalamazoo, Michigan. During the years spent at Stannards Music in Kalamazoo, I became acquainted with Mr. Tim Johnson, their piano technician. In my spare time, I would talk to Tim and watch with interest while he applied his craft to the pianos on the sales floor. My interest in piano tuning and servicing evolved into my wanting to pursue learning to do what he was doing.

I am very thankful to Mr. Johnson who took me under his wing and taught me the basics of piano tuning and repair as an apprentice. I then spent many years tuning part time, honing the craft. Practicing and honing the craft is a lifelong, never-ending pursuit.

In 1987, with a desire to tune as my full-time vocation and faith in God, I ventured out and started Mike Cook’s Piano Service. And by God’s grace and hard work, here I am today.

Being a musician has sharpened my skill and my sensitivity to the tuning craft itself. I have often been required to play on instruments that were sorely out of tune. No one likes to play music or hear music on a piano that is in need of repair.