Clive Ackroyd is Head of Piano Technical Services for the Royal Academy of Music in London.
Freelance work is also undertaken
Specialising in concert work, Clive works extensively with concert performers providing tuning, voicing, regulating and preparing pianos in concert halls prior to performances and recordings.
Clive was Piano Technician for the Royal College of Music in London from 1987 until 2001 with Darell Moulton (his manager and mentor), where they maintained their extensive piano stock (200 pianos); in the on-site workshop they carried out full rebuilds on the College's Steinway grand pianos.
He now runs the Piano Technical Department at the Royal Academy of Music where there is also an on-site workshop. Clive and his team maintain all the Academy's pianos and undertake full rebuilds on their stock of Steinway grands, which often includes fitting new actions. He also works closely with the professors and students at the Academy providing helpful advice in many aspects of their work, especially prior to their concert performances, recordings and during exam times.
Currently Clive is running workshops for first study piano students where he covers aspects of piano construction, design and general information on tuning temperaments and other areas of the modern piano; this gives pianists a good general understanding of what goes on inside a modern piano and how the piano 'sound' is created and what is meant by terms such as 'voicing' or 'regulating'.
Imperial College have a music department called the Blythe Music and Arts Centre and it is equipped with ensemble rooms, practice rooms and large performance spaces; and their largest concert hall (The Great Hall) is equipped with a fine Steinway model D concert grand that is maintained to international performance standards by Clive.
Yamaha Pianos have given Clive membership to the Yamaha Piano Technicians Guild (YPTG) which was set up to create a recognised team of qualified technicians that are authorised by Yamaha to work on their hand built range of pianos
Steinway and Sons often ask Clive to undertake work for them in performance or recording venues and he has had a close working relationship with them for many years.
| 
