I haven’t posted in over 2 years, so thought it was about time. So, the question popped in my head today: Why do I love tuning pianos so much? The answer….well…I mulled it over a bit and came up with 10 good reasons. There are certainly many more, but 10 seemed like a good round […]
Have you ever heard, or have you ever been told, “all this piano needs is just a good tuning?” I hear this all the time…mostly from clients who were quoting the person who was giving, or selling them, the piano! Usually, the piano does need a good tuning, but more often than not, the piano […]
Tuning Fork or Electronic Tuning Device (ETD)? The age old question and debate… which is better? A piano tuner who uses only the “good-old-fashioned” tuning fork? Or, a piano tuner who uses an electronic tuning device (machine)? The simple answer…neither! Or maybe…both! The fact is, that it totally depends on the tuner and their training, […]
If you own a piano more than say 30 yrs. old (and that would likely be a great majority of you) then here’s a great question for you to consider… Has your Piano Action ever been Reconditioned? First you ask…”A Piano Action? What is that? My piano has one of those?” And your next question […]
So, you’ve scheduled tuning, now what? The reason for this post is because even though there is usually not much to do to prepare for the piano tuner’s visit, I am often amazed at how many customers don’t do much, if anything. After all, they usually don’t have to prepare anything for the A/C repairman […]
So, today’s question….”is it really necessary to be completely quiet while the tuner is tuning my piano?” After all, the tuner is making quite a racket. With all the pounding of notes and all the noise they’re making, surely it doesn’t matter, right? I don’t have to be quiet when the A/C guy comes to […]
So, what does lurk inside your piano? Have you ever even seen the inside of your piano? I was thinking a lot about this yesterday as I was designing a new page for my website: www.RichardsPianoService.com/cleaning.html. I’ve come to the conclusion, through many years of servicing pianos, that most customers that I see for the first […]
We all know that musically, as well as for the health of the piano, that it is recommended to have your piano tuned regularly. So, you say…tell me something I don’t know! OK I recently read the following story, told by a well-known piano technician of an experience of his, which serves as an important […]
Pianos are intended to be tuned at A-440, a standard pitch, and if the piano hasn’t been kept in tune regularly, then over time it will gradually slip in pitch. Once this happens, the strings will need to be tightened back to their proper tension before the piano can be fine tuned. We call this […]
That’s the short answer. And the long answer is…. Those that read my last blog entry know that I set a date, last Wed, to tune my own piano…so I felt compelled to follow up and say, “Yes”, I in fact did just that. To be quite honest, it had been close to 2 yrs. […]