Now if you get for ex. high 4mil and 5mil serial # preowned Yamaha pianos in exceptional original cond.( look near new inside and out) selling for half the price of a non grey market piano ,the educated consumer is gonna go for the value, don't you think Now if it was 10...
There's a good reason this piano is free, and that's because the owner can't sell it for a price. It's really not a viable instrument anymore, and it may well have sounded nice when it was new but the money it would cost to repair this piano and bring it back to functional is ...
I am a Registered Piano Technician (RPT) an achievementshowing I can maintain, repair or just put afineaccuratetuning on your piano. Becoming a RPTrequires successful passing of a series of highly demanding written, technical and tuning exams through the Piano Technicians Guild. There are only 1...
Consider the risks.Carelessness or inexperience can break strings, loosen or bend pins or cause other damage. Too many loose pins, for example, may render the instrument practically un-tunable and too expensive to repair. Read this entire tutorial!I occasionally receivecommentsfrom professional piano...
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If you're looking at a piano with these problems - and it can happen at any age if the piano hasn't been looked after - then there's no point in even considering it because it would cost more to repair the piano than to replace it, if you're looking at Japanese or Chinese ...
were I to get an AvantGrand, I would use an iPad to adjust settings anyway. I note that the sustain pedal on the floor model was loose and not stable - it was not in good repair but I couldn't tell if this was due to a design shortcoming or just atypical damage on ...
There are only two "real" piano stores in town. Kelly's piano which is really close to being out of business. They only sell used pianos at this point and, according to the owner, are looking to go repair and service only in the near future. ...
To me this is a rather sad view of piano technology as a profession. For those who care, there is a large body of basic and advanced knowledge about pianos: tuning, regulation, repair, economics, history, performance practice. To be a professional, one really needs to undertake to master...
Also, I would like to thank Ed Sutton for helping me think through, by PM, the logic of the repair I had wondered about doing (pictures linked, below)."Repair" might be too strong of a word. It's more like a splint, until someone else can get to it and set the bone with ...