Piano Tuning
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Call A Piano Tuner Professional
Violists, Cellists and Guitarists, care for their own musical instruments and tune them before every rehearsal or performance, while pianists, piano owners and piano teachers rely on professional piano tuners. This dependence sometimes lures piano owners into neglect. This is regrettable, for while the piano tuner professional understands the primary enemy of piano tuning and general piano health is humidity and temperature changes. The secondary enemy of piano health and longevity is the lack of service.
Why tune the piano when nobody is playing?
Even if, no one is playing your piano the weather is playing it 24 hours a day, and it requires regular tuning.
Manufacturers design pianos with approximately 20 tons of string tension when tuned at A440 standard pitch. When, pianos drift off-pitch the curvature of the soundboard changes. The entire structure of the piano shifts. This bending and shifting is counterproductive for the health of your piano.
Piano Tuning Reinforces Preventive Maintenance
As with many assets in life, pianos develop problems overtime and piano tuning can reinforce preventive maintenance. The watchful eye of the piano tuner can help to avoid thousands of dollars in repair and potentially avoid losing all value.
Sometimes customers “roll the dice” with their pianos by not having them tuned for years. To take such a gamble with instruments that cost thousands of dollars just to avoid a couple tunings each year seems counterproductive, and certainly only use a piano tuner who is a trained professional.
From Steinway & Sons :
Tuning is an art practiced by skilled professionals and under no circumstances should anyone other than a professional be allowed to try to tune your Steinway piano.
My wife and I purchased a 125 year old Steinway, which, though beautiful, was not playable. It had not been tuned in years and sounded awful. Chuck, however, was undeterred and went straight to work,...
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I wanted to tell you that your Web site is very well designed. It is easy to find all of the pertinent information such as hours available, cost of tuning, testimonials, and it is...
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Chuck has done a great job keeping our aging pianos in the best possible shape. His sensitivity to tone and touch make it a pleasure to sit at the piano following his work. He always...
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Chuck was very professional and pleasant to work with. Not only did he tune our piano to the point that it sounded precise and delightful, but he also noted some maintenance issues that concerned him....
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Chuck knows his business and does an excellent job of bringing our piano to a perfect pitch. I truly enjoy sitting at the piano after he has tuned it---what a difference he makes. I do...
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My piano has never sounded so good. I can hardly keep my hands off of it. It is amazing. Thanks so much.
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Chuck has been tuning my piano since I brought it into my home. He has always been reliable, professional, thoughtful and pleasant. Of importance to me is the care he takes as he goes through...
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Chuck has been caring for my piano for over a decade. He has tuned it regularly, and has always done a wonderful job. Chuck is also very good at fixing mechanical problems that...
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When I purchased my first grand piano over 14 years ago, Chuck was the piano tech assigned to me for my first tuning and he's been my tech ever since. He tunes and voices my...
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Chuck has come to our house regularly for over 20 years to tune our Yamaha grand. He has always done an excellent job, and our piano sounds as good today as it did the...
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Chuck has tuned my old Baldwin Acrosonic for the past several years. He is professional, friendly, very knowledgeable and keeps my old piano sounding great. I especially like the pre-appointments and reminder cards. Nice...
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Chuck has tuned my Kawai for over 10 years. I have been very pleased with Chuck's service and the performance of my piano. I have six friends who now call on Chuck for piano tuning.
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Chuck has been tuning and voicing my grand piano for 20 years. I consider him a friend and a competent technician. I've taught piano for many years and appreciate a piano that is...
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Chuck is the first technician to understand what we needed in the way of voicing and functionality. Chuck regulated the key dip and action, voiced the strings and hammers, tuned, and cleaned my Petrof...
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We have always appreciated Chuck Littau's professional and responsible work on the pianos at Blue Ridge Blvd. United Methodist Church. His thoroughness and excellent knowledge keep our instruments, including a Baldwin grand piano, in tip...
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Chuck Littau has "nursed" my Steinway "B" since I acquired it two decades ago. Due to his expertise and sensitivity, it sounds as good or better than it did when I acquired it. I...
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