Piano Guidance
Piano Guidance
Photo: Juan Pablo Serrano Arenas
Pianos, though heavy, can sit in a variety of flooring options: hardwood, ceramic or porcelain tile, carpet, vinyl tile, etc.
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Read More »When you purchase a piano and bring it home for the first time, it’s such an important moment for you as a music aficionado. Are you having trouble deciding how to incorporate a piano into your home decor? You need a little bit of planning and some creativity to make sure the instrument fits in with your lifestyle. If you’ve purchased an upright piano, it’s a little easier to style because you can place it against a wall and you can decorate around it. You can place a smaller upright piano in a smaller room, surrounded by larger furniture.
Whether your piano features ivory or plastic keys, over time they can become yellow and/or faded. Many players accept this as simply part of owning...
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Read More »Also Called. Piano Technician, Piano Tech. Piano tuners make small adjustments to the tension of a piano's strings, aligning the intervals between their tones so that the instrument is in tune.
Some estimates put the number of pianos in the United States at nearly 20 million, and thanks to factors such as temperature, humidity, age, and frequent or hard playing, every one of them needs regular tuning and upkeep. A single home piano might need to be tuned once or twice per year, while studio pianos might be tuned monthly and concert pianos before every single performance. Piano tuners, who are often professional pianists or instrument repair technicians, take full advantage of this demand as a steady side gig. Piano tuning and repair is delicate, painstaking work, best suited to calm and focused individuals who don't mind working alone. Piano tuners use a handful of simple tools to test and adjust the pitch of a piano's strings, including a tuning lever, a variety of mutes to silence strings that aren't being tuned, and a tuning fork or electronic tuning device to determine accurate tones. Their most important tools, however, are their ears and deep knowledge of pianos: their anatomy, mechanical operation, and sound. A straightforward tuning job takes about an hour to complete, but a more complex one can involve assessing components such as the keyboard, pedals, and action, and correcting problems such as loose pins or worn felt on hammers. The piano tuner's art is simple to learn, but takes a lifetime to master.
The C major scale has no sharps or flats, this scale was created before the piano. When they created the piano (or whatever similar instrument...
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At $200 an ounce, a conservative evaluation of the trade in illegal ivory comes in around $1.44 billion a year—enough to motivate some people to kill.
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There is no hard rule about nail length; they should be cut just at the right length, so that we can feel the keys with the ball of our fingers. We...
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Eddie Van Halen's final words to Valerie Bertinelli and their son, Wolfgang, were “I love you.” In her new memoir, “Enough Already: Learning to...
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