{"id":61,"date":"2015-02-21T08:24:26","date_gmt":"2015-02-21T08:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pianodeal.com\/?page_id=61"},"modified":"2015-02-21T08:24:26","modified_gmt":"2015-02-21T08:24:26","slug":"when-to-service-your-piano","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/pianodeal.com\/when-to-service-your-piano\/","title":{"rendered":"When to Service your Piano"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>\u00a0What can happen to your piano over as year pass?<\/h4>\n<p>The piano is made of very fine diverse\u00a0<strong>materials<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0Such as selected and exotic woods, felt, leather, ivory, plastic, steel, cast iron, copper, brass etc.\u00a0\u00a0With time all of these components age and change.\u00a0\u00a0The\u00a0<strong>environmental conditions<\/strong>\u00a0for each piano may vary widely.\u00a0\u00a0In general, the older the piano, the more work can be expected in its repair.\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Felts\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>leather<\/strong>\u00a0can be eaten by moths, worn or become compressed from use.\u00a0\u00a0Iron can\u00a0rust,\u00a0wood joints can separate, become cracked or suffer other forms of damage.\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Strings<\/strong>\u00a0lose their elasticity and tone.\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Pinblock<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>can become loose and not support the tuning pins making the piano\u00a0untuneable.\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Soundboard\u00a0<\/strong>damage can include cracking, separation from the bridges, ribs and rim, loosing its crown.\u00a0\u00a0The whole\u00a0<strong>action<\/strong>\u00a0can change its geometry and functionality.\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Action parts<\/strong>\u00a0could be loosed, worn, missing or broken and become out of regulation. Especially affected are:\u00a0<strong>hammers<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>backchecks<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>knuckles<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>key bushings<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>keytops<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>dampers<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Veneer<\/strong>\u00a0can become separated or\u00a0missing,\u00a0<strong>paint<\/strong>\u00a0will burn from sunlight, and become faded or peeled.<\/p>\n<p>A piano may require anyone out of a potential 450 different\u00a0<strong>repairs<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0A piano is assembled from over 5000 parts.\u00a0\u00a0Most of the individual parts are located in the action which requires more than 20 different\u00a0<strong>regulations and adjustments<\/strong>\u00a0on each key and about 10 other for the rest of the piano.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that as experienced factory trained piano\u00a0rebuilders\u00a0we have the\u00a0<strong>solutions<\/strong>\u00a0for any of your piano problems.\u00a0\u00a0All the way, from the smallest of repairs and tuning, to the\u00a0<strong>complete rebuilding<\/strong>\u00a0of your instrument.\u00a0\u00a0Our goal is to preserve this wonderful instrument for your future playing pleasure and for your next generation.<\/p>\n<p>Our company has restored hundreds of pianos including all of the fine brand names,\u00a0grands\u00a0and uprights.\u00a0\u00a0Including but not limited to: Steinway &amp; Sons, Mason &amp; Hamlin, Baldwin,\u00a0Bechtstein,\u00a0Bosendorfer, Seiler,\u00a0Schimel,\u00a0Grotrian\u00a0Steinweg\u00a0in our 25+ years of professional service experience.\u00a0\u00a0We regularly service not only professional musicians and musical institutions, but also piano hobbyists, and even clients that do not play themselves but may have a deep personal appreciation for the piano.\u00a0\u00a0Lets bring your piano back to life so that it will play well, sound great, look smart and be complete in the tiniest of detail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0What can happen to your piano over as year pass? The piano is made of very fine diverse\u00a0materials.\u00a0\u00a0Such as selected and exotic woods, felt, leather, ivory,<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pianodeal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pianodeal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pianodeal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pianodeal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pianodeal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/pianodeal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62,"href":"http:\/\/pianodeal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61\/revisions\/62"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pianodeal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}