![]() If your up-right piano is pre 1920’s then you will most likly have a over damper action. ![]() If your piano is made after the 1940’s we can predict that your piano may hold pitch and maybe worth tuning. Some pianos are straight strung wich causes problems with a phenomenon know as inharmonicity, it is near impossible to achieve a pleasing tuning from such instruments. Some actions were very simplistic and fail to live up to expectation of todays pianists. Some pianos have wood frames and can’t support the tension of modern tuning or even hold tune. Pianos before this were some what of a experiment in building. The most advances and stability in piano production came with the industrial revolution. The piano was invented about 300 years ago. Q: Can all pianos be tuned?Ī: No not all pianos can be tuned well. A piano with tight tuning pins will not loose tune as fast as a piano with loose tuning pins, but playing is a factor in even the best quality pianos. The louder and more often a piano is played, the faster it goes out of tune. Regular playing is one more factor for a piano becoming out of tune. ![]() Many new pianos drop a semitone flat withing a few months after tuning, this may happen for 2 to 3 years untill the piano settles and the strings stop stretching. New pianos and newly re-strung pianos will not hold a solid tuning until the strings stretch with time and repeated tuning. Temperature has a mild effect on steel strings causing contraction and expansion of the steel and this cause changes in the stings pitch. Come dry weather the wood expels its moisture causing the soundboard to dry and shrink, causing the piano’s pitch to become flat and sometime tuning pins can become loose in the wood pin block. The wooden soundboard and bridge absorb moisture in humidity, this expand the wood putting more tension on the strings causing pitch change. Humidity and temperature changes are the biggest cause for your piano to go out of tune. Anything that changes the condition of these parts will cause change in the string tensions causing the piano to become out of tune. Strings are supported by the piano’s iron frame, pin block, tuning pins, wooden bridges and soundboard. Q: Why Does my Piano go out of tune?Ī: The Piano’s 200+ strings are under a great deal of tension, about 20 tons in total. Sadly the piano tuning profession is not government recognised as a trade, so any person holding a tuning hammer can call them self a piano tuner. By trusting your piano to an ARPT Tuner you can rest in knowing that your tuner has the highest skills to get your piano sounding it’s best and not making it sound worse or damaging your piano as has so often happened by inexperienced piano tuners in Perth. ![]() Adrian tunings have been tested by the Australian Piano Tuners & Technicians Association for accuracy and stability and has passed both rigours Tuning and Work bench tests to become a Australasian Registered Piano Technician. The outcome is a very accurate yet musical tuning. Adrian has been trained in aural piano tuning but has adapted a hybrid method that involved both technology based tuning followed by aural checks by ear. Perth Piano Tuner Adrian McDonald has been trained by Yamaha’s top Australian Concert Tuner Mr Brent Ottley at the Australasian School Of Piano Technology.
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