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Piano Tuning Aspects
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Tuning The Pitch

Tuning The Pitch

Pitch

Tuning: every 6 months
We recommend tuning your piano back to concert pitch to optimise its performance. Over time the piano pitch drops as a result of environment it is displayed; temperature changes, moisture and the amount is is used will affect the frequency your piano will need tuning.

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Voicing & Toning The Action

Piano Action

Voicing / Toning:

Hammer Servicing: 3-5 Years
Depending on the grade quality of hammer felt on your piano, heavy use can cause faster deterioration in sound as the tone becomes uneven. Voicing the hammers with new felt will restore the overall balance to the tone.

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Regulating The Action

Regulating The Action

Touch

Service: 3-5 Years
The build quality of your piano determines the frequency that the piano action should be regulated. Higher grade materials and level of craftsmanship endure longer with everyday use and environmental changes.

What can affect a piano’s performance?

Like a well oiled engine, a piano needs maintenance and servicing in order to remain in good working condition. Over time the strings within the cabinet will lose tension and stop producing the pitch it once could.

Contributing factors to a piano going out of tune can vary from level of use, to atmospheric changes such as humidity or dryness.

Mark Tuning

A piano is made up of over five thousand parts; in just one note there are over one hundred components. The standard accepted compass for a modern piano is seven and a quarter octaves (eighty eight notes). Each note may have one, two or three strings, known respectively as mono chords, bichords or trichords.

Abbey Piano Services have been professionally tuning pianos on location and in the workshop for many years, Mark has established himself as ‘The Technician‘ to call for keeping your piano in tip top condition.