The Piano Tuner

0000: This road movie follows a piano tuner around Australia meeting a rapidly changing community and working to preserve its cultural heritage.

From an Amish family in Tasmania to a Chinese Australian widow in Darwin, piano tuner Martin Tucker encounters people across Australia. Through his craft the audience is introduced to a network of community, soul connection and listening, bound together by the vanishing skill of a piano tuner committed to his calling.

Once upon a time Australia was home to the largest number of pianos in the world. Acoustic instruments are now falling out of fashion, replaced by electric keyboards, modern forms of entertainment and the permanent shortage of time to practice.
Observational in style, the film follows Martin travelling around Australia and portrays a rapidly changing community, that of the Australian Piano People: those who play them, those who own them and those who repair and maintain them.
Martin does not only have the skills of a piano tuner but is also an entertainer and a social worker with the ability to adjust to different environments.

A road movie in the true sense of the word, and part celebration of craftsmanship, part reflection on changing times, The Piano Tuner is also a deeply personal story about purpose, passion and preserving traditions that risk being forgotten.

Filmmaker Natalia Laska brings a wealth of experience, having worked for more than two decades as a journalist, photographer and documentary filmmaker across Europe and Australia.

Production Company Jotz Productions
Director Natalia Laska
Duration 90 Minutes
Production year 2026