Vanguard Piano Service | Piano Repair Service Kansas city

  Although the piano was originally invented in the 1700s, it did not come to prominence as an instrument until the late 1800s known as the Victorian era. Factories were beginning to mass produce 3 main types of piano, the upright, square grand, and grand piano. The availability increased and costs decreased to where average families were able to afford and have pianos in their homes for the first time. By the early 1900s, the development of the modern piano was realized and the ‘golden age’ of the piano had begun. Technology advances in design and materials allowed streamlined factory processes and more consistent quality control. The general design of high tensile strength steel strings strung on a heavy cast iron plate supported by a large wooden structure is still essentially the same today. American manufacturing dominated the early and mid 1900s and the acoustic piano slowly made its way into the majority of homes, schools, churches, and of course concert stages. European pia...

The Steinway Spirio is an advanced player piano system that allows the piano to perform music with remarkable expressiveness, exactly as a human pianist would. Using state-of-the-art digital technology, the Spirio system enables the piano to play pre-recorded music with an unparalleled level of nuance and detail, replicating every subtle dynamic, tempo variation, and phrasing nuance of the original performance. Unlike traditional player pianos, which typically just play a series of notes from a pre-programmed roll or file, the Spirio is designed to capture the full range of a live performance. It’s more than just a playback system—it’s a true "performance piano" that can showcase an extraordinary level of expressiveness, replicating the smallest touches and gestures of a pianist. The Steinway Spirio is available in both Spirio | r and Spirio | i models: • Spirio | r: The acoustic version that includes the Spirio system built into the piano, allowing it to both play and be pla...

  During a piano tuning appointment, clients will often ask questions like “How often should my piano be tuned?,” “What kind of work do you recommend to fix my piano?” or even just “How bad was it?” We always appreciate these kinds of questions, because they represent an underlying concern about keeping the piano working properly. We feel a strong responsibility to give these questions answers that will help people understand their piano better, and it is from the conversations that result from these questions that I am attempting to distill some useful information here for current and future piano owners. “I called you out here because it’s been a few years since I tuned the piano last, but it sounds fine to me. What do you think about this piano, is it way out of tune?”   Pianos are a bit like people, when they are young they are able to perform feats of athleticism that when they are old become more difficult. Pianos develop creaky joints, begin to respond une...