The importance of Regular Piano Tuning
Tuning
The most important reason to tune your piano on a regular basis is to maintain a stable pitch level.
When your piano is not kept up to pitch, bringing it back to the instrument’s natural A-440 pitch relocates the bends in the piano’s strings at the various contact points. The string will create a new bend at the new contact point and will straighten out where there is no longer a contact point. Gently seating the strings from time to time, helps to minimize this. However, even the most precise seating can still not recreate the same bend that works into a string through natural pressure.
In Colorado, unless you have a centralized humidification, we have two seasonal humidity changes: dry in the winter and less dry in the summer. Because of these two humidity levels, we recommend getting your piano tuned at least twice per year.
Regulation
With the 7,000-14,000 parts that a piano has, regular adjustment of these parts is necessary to maintain the proper function of the piano. Parts become compacted with use or expand and contract with the changes of the season and that requires that these adjustments be made in order for the piano to respond to the touch of the pianist with all the tone, power, and dynamics a well regulated piano is capable of rendering. Thus, allowing the pianist to be at ease and confident without having to compensate for mismatched touch.
Repair
As parts wear out or break they need to be repaired. We carry an exhaustive supply of replacement parts and can quickly diagnose the broken or warn part that is causing the problem. You can be completely confident that this repair will be made efficiently and accurately. In some cases it is necessary to manufacture an obsolete part and we have the tools and know-how to do this.
Voicing
It is important that your piano have evenness of tone and it’s full range of dynamics. in order for this to happen it needs to have a clean hammer stroke and appropriate hammer-to-string contact time. Our thorough experience with hammer shaping and/or needling and massaging will give your piano that evenness and mellow to brilliant tone that allows the pianist to play without having to compensate for mismatched tone. In extreme cases we have an arsenal of techniques to bring even the most difficult design to an acceptable level. we recommend having your piano voiced, at least minimally, every time it is tuned.