About me
I am a Registered Piano Technician in the Piano Technicians Guild, servicing pianos in the Sacramento area since 1984. I have tuned for Abbey Simon, NRBQ, Chick Corea, B.B. King, Stan Getz, Bobby Hutcherson, Dave Brubeck, Smokey Robinson, Marcus Roberts, Barry Manilow, Chantal Kreviazuk, Tori Amos, Jessica Williams, David Lanz, Holly Near, Johnny Cash, George Benson, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Roberta Flack, Jason Mraz, Morissey, David Benoit, David Foster, and many other artists, including Sacramento greats Joe Gilman, Markus Burger, Brenda Tom, Anton Barbeau, Tom Peron, Mat Marucci, and Jim Martinez.
I have tuned at the Community Center Theater, Memorial Auditorium, Cache Creek Casino, The Bob Hope Fox Theatre, ARCO Arena, the Mondavi Center, and the Crest Theater. I am associated with institutions including UC Davis, Gordon’s Music & Sound, Skip’s Music, Music Exchange, Sacramento City College, Cosumnes River College, Folsom Lake College, and Sierra College. For twelve years, I serviced the pianos for the Sacramento City Unified School District. For eighteen years, I tuned pianos for Larrick Piano.
I have trained at the Yamaha Little Red Schoolhouse. I specialize in servicing the Yamaha Disklavier player piano, for which I am factory-trained.
I have many years working with MIDI-based systems. I can set up and troubleshoot computer MIDI interfaces, keyboards, and music software.
You can reach me at 916-215-9921 or by email.
Mark Stivers Piano Tuning and Repair 
Heya Mark: Isn’t it funny — i was looking for Jon Dichter’s #, and googled, and came across your comment about him tuning for Andre Watts.
http://64.233.169.132/search?q=cache:1Xlr_Br4AgsJ:thevalleytechnician.blogspot.com/2008/12/from-my-friend-jon-dichter-in.html+john+dichter+piano+tuner+philadelphia&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=firefox-a
Looks like you deleted that old blog.
Dave