How Often Does A Piano Need Servicing?
To ensure that your piano is always working to optimum level and continually creating beautifully sounding music, a regular service is essential. Here at Steinway, our high quality pianos are extremely sensitive, so it is imperative that our trained technicians carry out a regular service so that your piano is always in its best working condition.
It is important that when it comes to the servicing or repair of your Steinway piano, you call in the experts. As such care is taken into the manufacturing of the pianos, repairs are often unnecessary. However if the case does arrive, then you need to make sure that you call in one of our authorised technicians who know all the ins and outs of the product.
One of the main reasons behind investing in a regular service for your piano is guarantee that the touch and play of your piano are in time. Any adjustment of the action will make sure that your Steinway piano is set up perfectly when you sit down to play music.
A further key aspect of a service is to retune your piano. Once purchased, it can take up to a year of frequent retuning for the tuning to settle down, however after that; your piano should be tuned by our skilled team at least twice a year.
There are also a number of things that you can do to look after your piano and keep its appearance in the best condition. From using a moistened cloth to clean your keys through to ensuring a regular room temperature is maintained to protect the wood, we advise on the personal care and attention required when owning a Steinway piano.
Here at Steinway we recommend that you call in our team to carry out a comprehensive service at least twice a year. Pianos are sensitive instruments so require perfect, ambient conditions to provide the sweetest sounding music; a regular service will help you to achieve this.