Dave started piano lessons at the age of seven, and during 10 years of study, passed grade seven in the ABRSM exam school. During later school years, he developed an ability to play by ear through extensive aural training using school computers. This no doubt helped to ease the path required to train in the piano industry, especially piano tuning. After enquiring to Giller Pianos about possible apprenticeships, he was pointed in the direction of the piano technical courses at Newark College in Lincolnshire, where he studied from 2013 to 2016. During that time, he became a regular face in many restaurants and pubs around the area providing nights of live piano entertainment, where his skills as a pianist entertainer were honed. This also provided a means to fund the years at college. After touring the country with a band for little under a year, he returned to Beccles and began professional singing lessons with a teacher specializing in the “Old Italian School”. Soon after he began touring venues as a vocal pianist in Norfolk and Suffolk - where some of his many pianos currently reside.

Soon after graduating from the three year course in Piano Tuning and Restoration at Newark College in 2016, Dave spent an additional year studying and practicing technical concert work under the guidance of Andrew Giller at Giller Pianos and the Old Granary Studio. His skills have been tested extensively after being appointed as the piano tuner for many prestigious venues including Potton Hall - a classical recording venue in Suffolk and the world renowned Aldeburgh Festival at Snape Maltings. Here he maintained the many Steinway pianos during the 2018 Proms concert series and undertook recording work tuning sessions with many well-known artists such as Daniel Barenboim and Peter Donohoe.