About Us and Keyboard Instruments
Keyboard instruments, their tunings and mechanisms, have to a large extent been the stalwart of Western musical accomplishments of the past half a millennium or more. On one hand this craft is honoured and respected for where we have arrived in the current day's musical realm - on another hand it is a springboard to the ever-evolving landscape of new music that lies between and beyond traditional systems. Most keyboard instrument technicians keep the stable status quo of how instruments are tuned and maintained - Niche Artist Industries are dedicated to addressing the specific, if not irregular, desires of artists as creators of new musical expressions.
Our Underlying Mission
Every keyboard instrument has its own unique characteristics, voice, condition quirks and requirements demanded by its operator. Niche Artist Industries stands as allies with artists who want the most out of their instrument - whether as intended by the original manufacturer, or as a bespoke retrofitted upgrade to take the instrument into new realms of creativity.
Qualifications
Since his first hobby tuning of his own piano in 2016, the founding technician of Niche Artist Industries, Angus Donald, has undergone an intensive professional technical development phase at Bösendorfer Klavierfabrik in Austria (2025), has 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 which is based in the USA (2022). Angus additionally holds a Bachelor of Arts (2020) and a Diploma of Music (2016) from the University of Tasmania.
