Serving the South Central Texas Area
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A piano is probably one of the most expensive consumer purchases many people will ever make! A piano can bring a lifetime of enjoyment, but, as you might expect with an investment of this size it does require periodic servicing to provide outstanding performance year after year!
Don't neglect your piano, have it tuned, or serviced regularly!
Call us today, 830-303-5920
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​Keeping a piano untuned for many years can cause permanent damage to a piano! Piano strings are under a great deal of tension and tend to lose their tension over time, which runs the risk of the total pitch of the piano dropping. To bring a piano back to standard pitch, at best, may require several tunings over several weeks, or at worst, cause string breakage, or split bridges!
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​Moving a piano without a professional's help, even if it is just around your home can cause expensive damage to a piano! Breaking a leg off of a smaller piano might just be a nuisance, but breaking one off of a grand piano can be disastrous!
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A piano is probably one of the most complex of all musical instruments! There are more than 500 working parts in the action alone, more than 250 strings, and a combined tension on the strings of between 15-20 tons! Yes, tons!
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​The strings of a piano are wrapped around a tuning pin that is set very tightly into a strong wooden block and must be turned using a special wrench. This means you should not try tuning your piano yourself!
Did you know?
A piano goes out of tune mostly because of seasonal changes in humidity that cause the soundboard and other parts to alternately swell and shrink. This happens regardless of whether or not a piano is played. New, or newly restored pianos should be tuned 3-4 times the first year. After that it is recommended by piano manufacturers to be tuned between 1-3 times a year, depending upon seasonal humidity, a player's sensitivity, and the amount of use.