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Enjoy continuous melodious music from your piano with professional tuning services from our company in West Salem, Wisconsin. Most manufacturers recommend tuning a new piano 3 to 4 times the first year and twice a year after that. Our piano service has some customers that tune their pianos more often than twice a year and others that only tune their piano once a year. The large seasonal changes are most noticeable after the onset of heating season in the fall and after the end of heating season in the late spring/early summer.
The "Sticking Key" Is the Most Common Repair
There are literally dozens of causes for this problem and, more often than not, this problem can be rectified during a tuning appointment. With older pianos, as parts fatigue and become brittle, there can be outright failures like a broken hammer shank. A more gradual failure and common repair is worn hammer heads. If the hammer heads are not too badly worn, they can be filed down to provide a new, even strike surface for improved tone. However, with 9,000 to 10,000 parts in a vertical piano and 14,000 in a grand piano, the probability that the piano will need some sort of servicing increases as the piano is used and as it ages.
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Standard Pitch
Standard pitch is piano tuning based on "middle A" tuned to 440 cycles/second. This international standard is particularly important for "ear training" in order to develop your own sense of proper pitch. This is essential for children learning to play the piano.
If your piano hasn't been tuned for a long time, it may require a pitch adjustment. A pitch adjustment is an initial "rough" tuning to bring the instrument to pitch before a fine-tuning can be performed. When we're called to tune a piano, we don't just tune it-we give it a "once over" to see if it works properly and if it needs any repairs or adjustments. We also take care of any minor repairs, which are included in the tuning price, to allow for proper piano tuning.
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It's Your Piano
If we find necessary piano repairs or adjustments that we don't have time to perform during the tuning appointment, we will give you a verbal estimate and offer to schedule a time to perform them. We NEVER pressure you to do work if you do not wish to because our core belief is that it's your piano.
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