Find Your Melody

Moving a piano upstairs is a challenging task. We’ll talk about the dangers later, however, you’ll need the right equipment, people, and careful planning to get the task done. The general advice, is to hire a professional for such a challenging […]

It costs between $150 and $550 dollars to move a piano. The cost varies depending on your location, transportation distance, and type/size of piano among other factors. For example transporting a piano across the country and into a second floor […]

If your piano is starting to sound out of tune, you may be interested in trying to tune the piano yourself. You probably realize that tuning a piano is a much more complicated process then tuning a guitar. But how […]

So I tune my piano strings once or twice a year, but eventually the strings will wear out and I will need to replace them, right? Well maybe. It turns out that the cost to restring a piano is high, […]

When I started researching this question, I initially thought people were asking “what is voicing on a piano?” Pianists often talk about voicing chords in certain ways. But as I researched I realized that no, even though I have years […]

Over the years, I’ve managed to remain oblivious to the finer details of piano maintenance; I instead relied on my parents or my school to keep my practice pianos healthy. Knowing practically nothing about piano regulation I did a deep […]

When your piano starts to sound bad it probably just needs to be tuned. During a tuning a technician adjusts tuning pins so that all 200+ piano strings sound at a desired pitch. So how much does it cost to […]

When I began researching for this post, I figured, “hey, I’ve got a well rounded background in music, it should be easy to tell if my piano is out of tune.” But as I tested the recommended methods on my […]

I sat down at an outdoor acoustic piano placed in our city. It was towards the end of the summer, and the weather was humid. I played a couple notes. About 1/3 made a sound as expected, 1/3 made a […]