
What are the important differences between an upright and a grand piano?Ĭan I change the weight of my action to make it heavier or lighter?Īre there different tunings? or Can a piano be tuned different ways and Why, if a piano hasn't been tuned in years, does it sometimes take multiple tunings My piano hasn't been tuned for about 10 years and is pretty flat, is that bad? Tuning', and why does my piano need to be tuned to A440? I know my piano sounds better after a piano tuning, but what exactly is a 'piano Pay me whatever extra you want to pay me. Time: 75 to 90 minutes for the Pitch Raise AND Tuning combined.ĭuring a regularly scheduled tuning, problems such as stuck keys mightīe found and it'll take me a little more time to fix these problems. Many piano tuners will charge you $40 to $50 extra for this service, you can pay me whatever extra is in your budget.

In these instances, a pitch raise is necessary prior to aįine tuning if it can be done without breaking strings. Tension is created in your piano, making it, and the resultant tuning To bring each of the approximatelyĢ30 strings to the proper pitch a great amount of Its pitch may have dropped far below A=440. If a piano hasn't been tuned for an extended period (usually a few years or more), I'm not asking for this, I've written it because people ask (The average cost for piano tuners in the area is between $120.00 and To the international standard pitch of A=440 Hz. Up an appointment for me to come visit you soon. I want to tune your piano just to listen to it, to beĪround it and to get to know and talk to you. This is what I would choose toĭo if everyone made the same amount of money, it's what I do to supportĬhildren. I love doing something that isĬonsidered a 'rare' or 'lost art'. I tune pianos for the fun of it, for the feeling of accomplishmentĪnd satisfaction I get when I do it. How the vibrations in the air caused by the vibrations of the strings can enhanceĮach other to produce this beautiful chord or how they can sometimes cause weird Listening to how those different chords react to each other, I've sat by myself for hours at the piano just playing chordsĪnd listening to them. I sit in my church congregation every Sunday listening and singing to a piano Local elementary school knowing that my instrument is helping them stay on pitch. Incredible satisfaction listening to a piano accompany a children's choir at a I've heard a piano on an album that I tuned in the studio before the album was recorded. Orchestra perform around a piano I tuned only hours before.

I arrived, knowing that some person is going to sit down in front of that piano

Knowing that I made a valuable musical instrument sound better than it was when Tune it, and play it again, then walk away with this immense feeling of accomplishment I love to walk up to a piano, good or bad sounding, play it, I choose to do for a living?" The answer was obvious to me "Anything having to This obsession has encouraged me to look at my life and toĪsk myself, "If everyone in the world made the same amount of money, what would I have an obsession with music and anything having to do with music including
