Piano Repair & Maintenance

Series Summary

The piano is a very important instrument in the development of western music of almost every genre. Its popularity with composers rests in the fact that the tones made by its keys offer an easy means of expressing a complex melodic and harmonic relationship of notes. And anyone familiar with the construction of a piano will not be surprised by the virtuosity of range that can be attained by tickling the ivories. The simple fact is this: the piano is one of the most complicated musical instruments ever constructed. With up to 12500 individual parts and pieces, the gravicèmbalo col piano e forte—commonly known as the piano—is both a masterwork of genius and a work of art.

Caring for your own piano can be a costly, time-consuming process. With so much to know about how the instrument works, and considering that pianos have around 198 strings, people often hire professionals to perform tasks as mundane as tuning. And pianos are often kept for long periods of time, passed down from generation to generation. As the instrument ages, more care and maintenance more care and maintenance is required.

In these free piano care videos, learn do-it-yourself tips on how to repair and restore your own home piano. Our expert will walk you through how to get inside the keyboard to remove any junk that might be stuck in there, adjust the hammers, and unstick keys. Then get a short tutorial on how to tune your piano with just a few pieces of equipment and a little bit of time. Watch these videos and restore your favorite piano to playing condition today.

Video Transcript

"On behalf of expertvillage.com this is Tom Flowers of "Well Tempered Piano Tuning". Hi Tom thanks for coming out and taking a look at my piano. As you could see this is it I have alot of challenges you never could tell what is going to be wrong with it cause I have a child that like to poke things down in it. Okay. Well do you think the damage is? Well a standard tuning is going to be $95, the rest of it would depend with what is going on. Pulling things out is not expensive pulling things out are free and sometimes you really find some really interesting things. But we could get to that point take a look at what is going on. Sounds good. The first thing I'm going to do is pull the this desk off and if you want to grab that plant. Sure. And we find out why certain things are they are. This piano is about 5 foot 7, it looks to me to be from the 20's from both designed in the cabinet and the appearance of the sound board and some other things that are going on here. It has not had any specific work, I can tell that by the pins they are still manufacture height."