The Full-Day Piano Service: A Quick Rundown

 Have you ever suddenly realized that the room you’ve been sitting in is way too hot? Or suddenly realize you are hungry and probably have been for a while. Sometimes it takes our conscious brain a while to catch up to subtle changes in the way we feel.

With pianos, if something suddenly goes wrong, it is often immediately apparent: a key stops working, or dampers ring forever, or the pedal squeaks. The decision to pick up the phone and have someone come out and look at the issue is an easy one, and the pain point simple to identify.

As pianos age, accompanying subtle changes often require us as musicians to (often subconsciously) put more effort into making the piano sound good. In grand pianos, compression and wear of felt parts throughout the piano mechanism cause alignment problems in the hammers. Slight warping in the wooden parts in all pianos can cause piano hammers to gain extra friction, or strike the strings incorrectly or not at all. Keys can begin to feel significantly heavier, and fine control is often lost. 

In my personal day-to-day experience, there are a few big difference-making services that pianos commonly need in addition to regular tuning that people don’t realize are changing the quality of how they play.

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