Most recently, I met somebody out in “lake country” that tried to tune for themselves, and was left with a nice deep gash going across their palm. If somebody (who doesn’t know what they’re doing) accidentally turns the wrong pin (out of 220+), or even cranks the correct pin just a bit too much, all 150-180lbs of that wire will snap and go flying like a stray bullet. Each string holds between 150-180lbs of tension, and can only withstand a certain range of tension. Not only is there severe risk of damage to the instrument, but also to your person. Let me say that again: I strongly, strongly, recommend not trying to do it yourself.
Therefore, even if your piano sounds “ok” after a few years, it still needs to be tuned annually to avoid slipping further and further into the abyss.Ĭan I tune my piano myself? Despite the encouragement you might get from a YouTube video, I strongly recommend not trying to tune the piano yourself. This principle is especially damaging for students, if they grow up never knowing exactly what it means to be on pitch. Playing along with your favorite pop song or a CD will gradually sound more and more like a train whistle’s duel clashing pitches. Singers can squeeze their butt to slightly sharpen their pitch there is no obverse trick to match a flat piano. If you play along with a violin or a flute, they will have to tune down to match that dull flatness of pitch. Despite sounding equal to itself, the strings have slipped down so much in pitch that anything outside the world of that piano is in a completely different pitch. In all honesty, it’s a lot more likely that you’ve gotten so used to an out-of-tune piano that you can’t remember what an in-tune piano sounds like. Does it really need to be tuned? Even if your piano sounds “equal,” it has almost certainly fallen from concert pitch. My piano hasn’t been tuned in years, but sounds fine. If I have tuned for you in the past, I will contact you annually to stay in rotation on the tuning roster.
The longer and longer the piano goes out of tune, it creates a basket case of problems for the next tuner as well as (usually) necessitates needing to be tuned more than once. As such, the top range (with 4-5 inch strings) usually goes out first, and the longer 5 foot bass strings slowly follow the lopsided demise. This constant pull to go flat affects ranges of the piano disproportionally. Paired with strings that are pulling down over 18 tons of tension, the pins gradually get pulled flat and therefore go out of tune. As the weather fluctuates - especially in our region - the wood contracts and expands. What causes my piano to go out of tune? Piano strings are held in tune by metal pins that are drilled into a big block of wood, called the pinblock. Therefore, the practical answer is that most pianos should be tuned once per year. But the practical answer is that a piano which receives light use and is in a house with a well-regulated climate should be able to last a year between tunings. And if it’s a new piano, it should be tuned four times in the first year to retain the stretch of the strings. Piano manufacturers recommend having the piano tuned every six months. How often should my piano be tuned? There’s the technical answer… and then the practical answer.
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