7 Reasons Why You Need Piano Service
- Without it your piano will lose it’s value
- You must have it tuned every six months to maintain pitch
- Prevention of moth, mildew, or mites infestation
- To maintain the fluidity of the action
- It extends the life of the piano
- What if your piano needed felts and you didn’t know it?
- It will enhance the students performance and achieve better exam results
Piano felts and straps
Piano Service Is The Most Important Thing You Can Do For Your Piano
Our purpose here is to promote awareness of the pitfalls of going without piano service for any length of time and what it could mean to you and your piano.
I can only remember the piano tuner coming to our house once in all my growing up years. The consequence of that decision was that even though I had taken lessons for 5 years, I could never play the piano without making at least one mistake, if not more. For that reason I made a decision not to follow a musical career. My thought was: “How could I play professionally if I always
tuning hammer and mutes
made a mistake somewhere in the music?” It wasn’t until much later, when I married a piano tuner, that I found out the reason I made mistakes was because we never had the piano serviced. A good piano action works smoothly; ours never did.
It wasn’t a great piano nor was it a highly recognizable name brand, but it still needed a professional to take care of it. That would have made a mediocre piano better. How sad that I made a career choice not to follow my dreams just because we didn’t have piano service on my practice piano.
Some of you own old vintage pianos, some may have a brand new Steinway; others have a piano handed down from Grandma and still others have an inexpensive student piano for the kids. What needs to be done with any of these pianos? The answer is the same for all of them. They need piano service.
First of all they need piano tuning. Your piano should be tuned twice a year when the seasons change. At the least it should be tuned once a year. If you let it go longer than that it becomes unstable, but more than that it will cost you a lot more since by then it will probably be below pitch as well. Second of all you want someone to oversee your piano so that nothing drastic happens to it as time goes by. As mentioned earlier in this post, many things can happen on the inside of your piano of which you are not aware. It may have the appearance of a fine piece of furniture but in reality it is a very complex musical instrument!
Good Piano Service Is Hard To Find
The third topic here is how to find a good piano service technician. One way that is presented to people is to suggest that the person be authorized by the Piano Technicians Guild. While on the one hand this is logical, I have known many who are certified yet lack total common sense when it comes to servicing your particular piano. Do you have the thousands needed to restore it to “good health”? Should you throw away Grandma’s piano because it is old and someone doesn’t have the patience to work on it or the understanding that it will break your heart?
Do you have any idea how many great piano tuners/technicians that are available but have never taken the test because they tune by ear and the test is evaluated by an electronic device? Just in my city alone there are several tuners that are sought after by many and have a following of hundreds of satisfied customers.
Check with your neighbors, your piano teacher, and on the internet be sure to look for references and good work done. Choose carefully and you will be a happy camper. Choose the piano service technician carefully to watch over YOUR piano!
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