About Tessa

Tessa Cutler-Wood is a Registered Piano Technician and the owner of Underdog Pianos.  She grew up all over the Northeast, but she spent most of her formative years in central Maine.  Her childhood piano was a Baldwin Acrosonic spinet, so spinets will always have a special place in her heart. 

Tessa received a BA in Music from Tulane University in 2015.  She was first exposed to piano work while watching her parents' technician tune their piano. During her senior year of college, she shadowed a technician in New Orleans, watching him tune in bars and historic sites like Preservation Hall, where he let Tessa turn her first tuning pin.  After graduating, Tessa moved to Boston and apprenticed with a technician who showed her the basics of piano repair and regulation.  Then, in 2016, she began attending the North Bennet Street School for Piano Technology.

Of course Tessa loves playing the piano. She also has fun with the ukulele. For non-musical outlets, she takes part in Krav Maga, rock climbing, and the occasional running event.  But her greatest joy is her doggie friend, Oscar, the inspiration for her logo design and business name.