here are around 230 strings on the average piano. Each string on the piano has a unique pitch and frequency that must be tuned to the other strings. The sound quality of your piano is determined by these strings, so they must be maintained properly. Due to stress, these strings can stretch over time, causing the piano to become out of tune. Seasonal Changes in humidity also cause the piano to become out of tune. When pianos are tuned regularly, they are easier to tune, stay in good condition, and maintain their value. Piano tuning regularly also avoids damage caused by overstretched strings. It will be more expensive and time-consuming to get a piano back into tune if it hasn't been tuned in a long time. If a piano hasn't been tuned in a long time, a piano tuner may attempt to correct the problem by raising the piano's pitch. This involves pulling all of the strings, resulting in a sharp pitch. When the strings naturally stretch over time, causing the pitch to go flat, this overcompensation should keep the piano in tune. You should have your piano checked every six months to a year to ensure that the strings last as long as possible. If the strings are damaged too much or the keys are not properly working, you should take a piano repair service. If you buy a new piano, you should tune it four times in the first year since the new strings stretch more and go out of tune more quickly. If you tune your piano regularly throughout the first few years of ownership, it will be more likely to stay in tune for longer periods of time and during the later years of its life. Regular piano tuning can increase confidence in people beginning to play the piano, as it's exciting to play piano that's in tune and sounds nice. Standard tuning is for those pianos that have been tuned in the past 6 months to a year. It involves manipulating the tuning pins to bring all the strings to their proper and harmonious pitch. We use a combination of aural and electronic tuning to ensure your piano sounds great! Read More About Click Here : piano repair service.

Action Service $185 Regulation $135/hour Your piano is made up of more than 10,000 parts, many of which move and all of which are subject to wear. An action service includes action removal and replacement, cleaning, lubrication of all action centers, and tightening of over 200 screws. Piano Regulation is where we can truly make your piano the best that it can be! We adjust 37 steps of movement for each note so that they play with optimal control, power, and dynamic range. Who knew that pianos were so complicated! Read More About: Piano Tuning And Repair Service

As a conscientious piano owner, you probably have your piano tuned regularly by a qualified technician. You may, however, notice a deterioration of its performance despite regular tuning. It's important to note that tuning is only the adjustment of the system of strings and pins that determines the pitch of each string. Your piano also requires a periodic servicing called regulation, which is the optimization of the mechanical parts of the piano to provide the best response to touch. Regulation is the adjustment of the mechanical aspects of the pianos to compensate for the effects of wear, the compacting and settling of cloth, felt, and buckskin, as well as dimensional changes in wood and wool parts due to changes in humidity. The three systems involved in regulation are the action, trapwork, and damper system. The action is the mechanical part of the piano that transfers the motion of the fingers on the keys to the hammers that strike the strings. It is comprised of over 9,000 parts which require adjustment to critical tolerances to be able to respond to a pianist's every command. The trapwork is the assemblage of levers, dowels, and springs that connects the pedals to the action affecting sustain and dynamics. The damper system is the mechanical part of the piano that stops the vibration of the string when you release the key and is controlled by the key and pedal systems. https://www.newyorkpianoworks.com/piano-care-faqs

Here to serve you and your piano We make our clients’ pianos the best that they can be by providing expert tuning and repair, meticulous regulation, and peerless restoration. Whether it’s an old upright or a brand new concert grand, your piano is important to you - and to us. We will do whatever is necessary to make your piano the best that it can be! Read more about click here -: New York Piano Works :- Address:- 186 Foxhall Avenue Kingston, NY 12401 845-489-8122

Every week, I speak with at least a couple of people who are interested in not giving up on their older piano, but rather bringing it back to a playable condition. There are two ways to do this: Rebuilding and Restoration. Both attempt to restore the piano to its former glory, but the philosophy behind them differs. Rebuilding can involve anything from an action overhaul to replacement of soundboard, strings, and pin block. Where possible, new parts are used. I say where possible because while the industry became standardized around the 1920s, pianos prior to that often have parts for which it is impossible to find replacements. For example, we are doing a rebuild right now for a client in Albany, a piano from 1909. The hammer butts and hammer assemblies are able to be replaced, but the whippens (the mechanism which transfers the energy from the key to the hammer assembly) are non-standard and must be reconditioned by cleaning and by replacing leather and felt where possible. Rebuilding often gives the best musical results, as newer parts are often superior. However, some people want their piano as true to the original as possible. That is where restoration comes in. Restoration seeks to use the original parts and historically accurate materials. This will reproduce, as closely as possible, the aesthetic of the time in which the piano was built. This route is most often reserved for pianos which have great historical or sentimental value. It is often cheaper to replace parts than it is to recondition them, as reconditioning is extremely labor-intensive. Thus, the cost of historical restoration of a piano can exceed that of rebuilding by a fair amount. Whether you are interested in rebuilding or restoring your piano, New York Piano Works is the primer facility for Upstate New York and the entire Hudson Valley. Make an appointment to have your piano evaluated today! www.newyorkpianoworks.com

The Josh.ai and Sonance partnership continues transforming immersive audio experiences thanks to a design-first mindset. Living spaces have never been as connected thanks to Josh Nano leveraging a room’s in-ceiling or in-wall speakers to provide its feedback. Originating from Josh Core’s VoiceLink outputs and disseminated through Sonance DSP amplifiers, Josh.ai’s responses to voice commands are distributed throughout every area of the smart home. Beyond VoiceLink, Sonance’s integration with Josh.ai offers a range of control functionality for a smart home design. Users are able to switch inputs, control volume levels, distribute a single source to play across multiple zones, and route multiple sources across multiple zones. This level of control is available verbally with Josh Micro and Josh Nano, as well as manually through the intuitive Josh.ai app. For example, a user can give a command like, “OK Josh, play Mozart in the living room, foyer, and entryway and turn it to 35 percent.” Josh.ai will not only confirm it’s executing the request via the room’s speakers where the command was given, but it will handle the search and routing of the music, and directly adjust the volume on the Sonance DSP amplifier as well. With a shared vision of blending technology into its surroundings, the companies have created a campaign that explores the nuances of system and architectural design for the most discerning clientele. Learn how Josh.ai’s contextual voice control and Sonance’s Invisible Series speakers pair to provide the smart home design-build community with an uncompromising solution. Alex Capecelatro, CEO Josh.ai, and Mike Cleary, Director of Marketing at Sonance, kick off the Invisibility campaign by discussing the trends they’re seeing in the industry’s most innovative properties and the inspiration behind Josh Nano: https://youtu.be/rrhB-VOAv6k Stay tuned for the next part of the series in the coming weeks. Alex and Mike will be headed to the first showroom showcasing Josh Nano to hear one of the industry’s leading dealer’s perspectives on the convergence of technology and design. “I’m so excited for the industry and our dealers to see this campaign focusing on design and elegant client experiences.” said Alex Capecelatro, CEO of Josh.ai. “Our goal at Josh.ai is to make user experiences as intuitive, secure, and magical as possible. Josh Nano, Josh Core, and our partnership with Sonance enable our installers to offer their clients a caliber of smart home that previously was only science fiction.” “What a cool combination of design and technology!” said Mike Cleary, director of marketing of Sonance. “Pairing our Designed to Disappear strategy with our friends at Josh.ai has been a blast. I’m very excited to see our integrator partners execute this concept in their most beautiful projects and embrace the combination of Sonance Invisible Speakers and DSP Amplifiers with Josh Nano and Josh Core.”

One of the most often performed and most necessary things one can do to a piano is to have the action serviced. The benefits, compared to the cost, result in great value and a noticeable improvement in the performance of your piano. Action Servicing involves three procedures: Cleaning the action, tightening all screws, and lubricating action centers. The procedure takes about an hour. Cleaning is the first step. The action is removed from the piano, dust and debris are blown out with compressed air (outside of course), and the action is wiped down with cleaning solution and a microfiber cloth. Next, we tighten all the screws. In an upright piano action, that’s well over 200 screws! We tighten hammer butt screws, whippen screws, action frame screws, and damper screws. In a grand action there are fewer screws: Action frame screws, Hammer flange screws, and whippen screws. Finally, we lubricate the moving parts. Most pivot points in piano actions are comprised of pins that ride inside cloth bushings. The lubricant that we use clears out dust and debris, lubricates the pivot point, and protects it from future damage. In an upright piano, we lubricate hammer butt flanges, damper flanges, whippen flanges and jack flanges, as well as balance rail pins. In a grand piano we lubricate hammer flanges, whippen flanges, jack flanges, and balance rail pins. Action servicing should be done every three to five years, depending on usage and environmental conditions. In addition to making the piano play more efficiently and with less extraneous noise, servicing the action also affords the technician an opportunity to examine each of the many moving parts, and correct minor problems before they become major and costly ones. Make an appointment today!

There are around 230 strings on the average piano. Each string on the piano has a unique pitch and frequency that must be tuned to the other strings. The sound quality of your piano is determined by these strings, so they must be maintained properly. Due to stress, these strings can stretch over time, causing the piano to become out of tune. Seasonal Changes in humidity also cause the piano to become out of tune. When pianos are tuned regularly, they are easier to tune, stay in good condition, and maintain their value. Piano tuning regularly also avoids damage caused by overstretched strings. It will be more expensive and time-consuming to get a piano back into tune if it hasn't been tuned in a long time. If a piano hasn't been tuned in a long time, a piano tuner may attempt to correct the problem by raising the piano's pitch. This involves pulling all of the strings, resulting in a sharp pitch. When the strings naturally stretch over time, causing the pitch to go flat, this overcompensation should keep the piano in tune. You should have your piano checked every six months to a year to ensure that the strings last as long as possible. If the strings are damaged too much or the keys are not properly working, you should take a piano repair service. If you buy a new piano, you should tune it four times in the first year since the new strings stretch more and go out of tune more quickly. If you tune your piano regularly throughout the first few years of ownership, it will be more likely to stay in tune for longer periods of time and during the later years of its life. Regular piano tuning can increase confidence in people beginning to play the piano, as it's exciting to play piano that's in tune and sounds nice. Standard tuning is for those pianos that have been tuned in the past 6 months to a year. It involves manipulating the tuning pins to bring all the strings to their proper and harmonious pitch. We use a combination of aural and electronic tuning to ensure your piano sounds great!

Many people are not aware that humidity can have a profound effect on the tuning and performance of your piano. Humidity is a measure of how much water vapor is in the air, relative to the maximum amount of water vapor it can hold (that’s why it’s called relative humidity!). Your piano is subject to wide swings in humidity. This is particularly true in the Hudson Valley, where the majority of our clients live. In the summer, humidity levels can go as high as 100%, while in the winter, your heating system can drop the relative humidity in your home into the single digits. What does this mean for your piano? When the humidity is high, the soundboard and bridges absorb moisture and swell, increasing the tension of the strings and forcing the piano sharp. When the humidity is low, the opposite happens — the soundboard and bridges release moisture and shrink, reducing the downward pressure of the strings and forcing the piano flat. This is why almost all piano manufacturers — and your piano technician — recommend that your piano is tuned twice a year. In addition to forcing your piano out of tune, increased humidity affects the action parts, swelling the wood and increasing friction, which can make your action respond sluggishly (a major cause of “sticking” keys). How can you mitigate the effects of humidity on your piano? There are several options. The absolute best solution is to have your whole house humidity controlled. This involves either attaching a humidifier to your HVAC system or installing a separate humidifier/dehumidifier system in your home. While this is the best solution, it can be very expensive to install and maintain, and is usually cost prohibitive. The next, and we think best, solution is to install a humidity control system directly in your piano. The Dampp Chaser company, makers of the Piano Life Saver system, is the only company making these systems. Over the past 74 years they have perfected their system and adapted it to work in all pianos. This system maintains the relative humidity of your piano within a few percent of the ideal level of 45% Relative Humidity. A humidistat regulates the humidity, similar to the way your thermostat regulates temperature. If the humidity is high, the humidistat activates low power dehumidifier bars to dry out the piano. If the humidity is low, the humidistat activates a humidifier — a gentle version of that which you might put in a room. Periodically, you must fill the humidifier tank with water. This can be disconcerting the first few times, pouring water into a tube that disappears into your piano! In grand pianos, the system is installed underneath the piano, in direct proximity to the soundboard. An under cover will aid in the effectiveness of these systems. A dehumidifier bar is installed at either end of the underside of the piano, and a humidifier tank is located in the approximate middle. In vertical pianos, the system is installed in the lower half of the piano, inside the knee board. There is one dehumidifier bar which runs the width of the piano, and the humidifier tank generally rests on the bottom board. A watering tube extends from the top of the knee board to underneath the key bed. Routine care of the system involves replenishing the water for the humidifier tank, when prompted to do so by a discreet light panel mounted underneath the key bed. The system will be serviced by your technician when they comes to tune your piano; this involves replacing the humidifier pads and testing the system. The system comes with a five year warranty, which New York Piano Works will double to 10 years provided we continue to service the system. Other than routine care by a qualified technician, a Piano Life Saver system is the best investment you can make towards the quality and consistency of your piano. Click HERE or contact us for more information! For more information click here: Piano Humidity Control