About

Angus Donald is the founding technician of Niche Artist Industries. He is a Yamaha Authorised Service Agent (Piano Technician/Tuner), with additional training from Yamaha Australia in the servicing of Yamaha's Hybrid Electroacoustic instruments - including Silent, Trans-Acoustic and Disklavier self-playing pianos. In 2025, Angus underwent intensive professional technical development at Bösendorfer Klavierfabrik in Austria. He based his Music Honours research on microtonal piano tuning at the University of Melbourne (2023) and completed a piano tuning and repair course through the Piano Technicians Academy, based in the USA (2022). Angus additionally holds a Bachelor of Arts (2020) and a Diploma of Music (2016) from the University of Tasmania. It was during his music studies in 2016 that Angus began an active interest in piano technology.

Angus has supplied keyboard services to:

- Hiatus Kaiyote (Ninja Tune/Brainfeeder),

- Clark (Warp/Deutsche Gramophone/Throttle)

- David Shea (Tzadik/Room 40)

- Dr. Monica Lim

- Dr. Melody Eötvös

- MONA

- Barney McAll

- Dingo Festival (Byron Bay)

- National Museum of NSW

- Black Spark Cultural Centre

- The Sweet Enoughs