

The tuner has recommended a “pitch raise”. Q: YOUR TECHNICIAN TELLS ME THAT MY PIANO NEEDS TO BE TUNED AGAIN, AND HE WAS JUST HERE. In addition, an out-of-tune piano can be discouraging for your child, reducing his or her chances of developing a true commitment to this intellectually and artistically rewarding past-time.

Children should receive the basic tools for ear training early on, including a properly tuned piano. Learning to play music is like learning a language: the window to become beautifully fluent in it is quite small, and starts early. Q: MY CHILDREN ARE JUST STARTING LESSONS. (Some Russian technicians describe tuning as human exercise for an instrument: if a man sits in a chair for five years, he might stand up and walk across the room, but he won’t run a marathon!) If you are still not convinced, here are 5 reasons why you should tune your piano. Most pianos are holding about 40,000 lbs of tension combined from the strings! Over time, if a piano is left untuned, metal fatigue can develop on the strings where they meet the tuning pins, causing the strings to become brittle and snap from any tuning attempt. Whether your piano is played or not, it experiences the stress of changing levels of temperature and humidity. Q: I HARDLY PLAY MY PIANO, WHY DOES IT NEED TUNING?
