If the repair turns out to be more than what can be covered by our minimum fee, I will give you an estimate and we can go from there. This is the minimum fee to have me come to your home to do a minor fix. This is for the sticky key, pedal squeak etc. Currently our fee is $1000/day plus expenses. We have even been hired to check pianos out of state. Trip fee can be shared by clients who schedule in the same area on the same day. Outside that range, the fee range is $1.50 – $2.00 per mile for the trip out, depending on overall distance. We have serviced piano from Bainbridge Island, down to Portland OR.įor pianos within a 15 mile radius of our business location (2302 State Ave NE, Olympia) there is no trip fee. This appointment typically takes 3 - 3.5 hours from beginning to end. May include minor repairs if time allows. Even if the tuning is close, this appointment is great for pianos that have not had regulating and/or voicing maintained OR if the piano gets heavy use. The service will vary depending on the needs of the piano and the client. We recommend this service for most pianos that are very out of tune and/or have not received any other maintenance besides tuning for several years. This appointment typically takes 2 – 2.5 hours. The goal is to keep your piano’s touch and tone from deteriorating from age, use, and humidity changes. This can make a very noticeable improvement to your piano's tone. Lubrication of mechanical parts, basic hammer resurfacing, and hammer to string mating are typically included. In addition to fine tuning, a Tuning & Maintenance service includes significant touch and tone adjustments. If time allows, we include some light tone work. This includes a "pitch raise" if necessary Other technicians may charge for this: We include it. This 90 minute appointment will get your piano sounding better on a budget. If you want a basic no-frills service and want to spend less, this can be a good option. Without humidity control, tuning can go out more quickly than you might think! Cost of basic systems is listed further down the page. We highly recommend Dampp-Chaser humidity control systems to help preserve the tuning. $195 In Person Consultation/Estimate/Pre-purchase check Here's some info from the Piano Technician's Guild on regulation.Scroll down for more detailed descriptions. Want to make me happy? Ask me about regulating your piano. What's this regulation you speak of, you might wonder. Here's some info from the Piano Technician's Guild on pitch raises. Trust me, we wouldn't do it if we didn't have to! We'd much rather spend 45 minutes regulating and voicing. To the pins required for a great tune job. Therefore you have to get a piano at roughly the correct tension before you can make the very fine adjustments The tension (and thus the tuning) of the other strings is affected. This flexing affects the tension of all the other pins, creating a moving target. As you can imagine, if you let this tension relax and then suddenly tighten it back up, this causesĪll of the other parts of the piano to flex. Piano strings exert between 18-30 tons of tension on the pinblock and plate. Why is a pitch raise necessary? When a piano is left without a tune for too long, the entire instrument drops in pitch as all of the strings Your piano hasn't been tuned in more than a year, it probably needs a pitch raise. Relative and depends a lot on the precision of the final tune required and the abilities of the instrument. This is requried before the final tune if a piano is way out of tune.
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