All About Piano Maintenance & Tuning

[Chattyirena]

Hi Nickw,


I watched a piano technician from Emmanuel & Sons voice a Grand Piano recently at someone’s home. From what little I understand, any piano technician who can work on grand pianos can do the same with uprights (they all start basic tech training on uprights and then do advanced training on grands). Maybe you can check with Emmanuel & Sons?

[NICKW]

Hi Chattyirena,


Thank you so much for the info.

[Blessed Homemaker]

Does the regular tuning includes regulating the piano? If not, how much does it cost to regulate? And does all tuner know how to do it?

[jce]

Regulating is different from piano tuning. Tuning is just a general maintaining process to keep the piano in tune and in shape (like a yearly health check-up). Regulating is a lot more in depth and professional so un-eveness in tone, touch etc will be checked and rectified. This type of more in depth work is generally done sparingly, perhaps once every 10 years if it is a good piano. Of course, if usage is high then it would be a bit more regular due to wear and tear.

[thejabbox]

hi all, is this still active?


i need contacts for moving piano and tuning too… anyone can PM me pls?

TIA ya

[KiasuPiano]

thejabbox:

hi all, is this still active?


i need contacts for moving piano and tuning too... anyone can PM me pls?

TIA ya

Have PM you. Good day.

[Wan]

MummyThreeStreams:

happyparent:

Hi Happy Mama and MummyThreeStreams... would you mind PM me your contacts on tuner and mover as well? Planning to move in these 2 weeks. Waiting for the move to get the piano tuned... have been waiting for 2 years for this opportunity... Much appreciated :love:

No problem! Have sent you the contact details too!

Hi mummies,
Any indication of moving and tuning cost of an old piano vs buying a new basic piano for lower grade? I have an old piano at my parent's place which I haven't touch for years. Now that my son is taking grade 1, my dilemma is whether to buy a basic piano or recondition my old piano...

Please pm me contacts of tuner and movers. Thanks

[yernying]

Can use my tuner.he charge 50dollars for each visiting.83805678 Mr.Chew

[smiles]

Need recommendation for piano mover and tuner, please. Thanks

[matrix72]

hi, saw yernyin posted her piano tuner, Mr Chew,for $50 per visit so gave a try since the price is so attractive. Just to share my experience with this Mr Chew. After tuning the piano, my piano teacher complaint few keys were wrongly tuned so we contacted him. He refuted the claim and gave lots of excuses and claimed that our piano is old and need overhaul which cost more than $1k. He even suggested to us to trade in our U1 to him for another piano which we turned down his offer. We decided to get another tuner to verify his claim and realised that few keys were indeed mistuned but were fixed subsequently. Hopefully by sharing this incident, u may want to be more careful when engaging Mr Chew as your piano tuner.