Team Members

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My therapy is riding motorcycles

Willem “Wim” Blees started working on pianos in his dad’s shop when he was 12 years old. After he graduated from college and taught band and chorus for six years, he started his full time piano service business in 1977 in St. Louis, Missouri. Then from 2001 – 2007 he was the piano technician for the University of Alabama. In 2007 he and his wife moved to Hawaii, and in 2021 he retired from full time piano work and moved to Florida.



Wim has given lectures at over 55 PTG seminars and conventions on a wide variety of subjects including tuning, repairing, rebuilding and business. He has also taught the at the Europiano Conference in Warsaw, Poland, at the APPTA conventions in Adelaide and Brisbane, and at Malaysian PTG seminars. Wim has served on the PTG Board of Directors as the Central West Vice President and was a CTE for many years. He was the president of the Central Florida Chapter, and the chairman of the 2024 PTG Southeast Regional Seminar. At the PTG Convention in Orlando Florida in 2021, Wim was awarded the Member of Note.

In addition to writing numerous articles for the Piano Technicians Journal, he is the author. the business of piano tuning: a guide to marketing, managing, promoting, buying and selling a piano service business.

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