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Part One: Your piano is an investment in your future. It can bring you and your family a lifetime of music, adding immeasurable joy and beauty to your home. Since it is also such a large investment, it should be maintained with the utmost care. Regular servicing by a qualified technician will preserve your instrument… Continue reading How often should my piano be serviced?

How often should my piano be serviced? Part II Yamaha Pianos New pianos should be tuned a minimum of four times the first year to compensate for the normal settling that takes place. Subsequently, as a matter of standard maintenance, a piano should be tuned at least twice a year. Of course, some musicians will… Continue reading Interesting Facts on Servicing Your Piano

The Steinway Mystique The Enduring Name of Steinway & Sons The Steinway name has endured for more than 150 years. The company has survived the U. S. Civil war, World War I, World War II, the Great Depression, and the age of electronics. More than once the company threatened bankruptcy, moves to liquidate, and faced… Continue reading The Steinway Piano and all its Grandeur

BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan, (Dec. 22, 2015) — Among Army Spc. Anne Lee’s earliest memories, she said, is being a young girl staring at the pianist during Sunday church services and wondering what it took to make that kind of music. “I think I was about 5 years old or so, and I was fascinated… Continue reading Through Love for the Piano/ Soldier Spreads Joy

The story of the piano begins in Padua, Italy in 1709, in the shop of a harpsichord maker named Bartolomeo di Francesco Cristofori (1655-1731). Many other stringed and keyboard instruments preceded the piano and led to the development of the instrument as we know it today. Mankind’s knowledge that a taut, vibrating string can produce… Continue reading The Piano and its History

Out near Laguardia Airport, in Queens, NYC, is the Steinway piano factory. It smells like sawdust and lacquer. Some 1,500 pianos leave this factory every year. And Wally Boot plays every single one. “I’ve been here for 52 years,” he says. “And I love every minute of it. I’m tone inspector. I’m the last one… Continue reading Science and the Piano Builder

At first glance, she was elderly and delicate – a woman in her 90s with a declining memory. But then she sat down at the piano to play. “Everybody in the room was totally startled,” says Eleanor Selfridge-Field, who researches music and symbols at Stanford University. “She looked so frail. Once she sat down at… Continue reading Music is the Universal Language at any Age

Part 1: When melody, harmony and rhythm interact in a meaningful way, it is powerful and magical. It can ignite emotion and provoke thought. When all of those together, interact with lyrics in a meaningful way, it can help shape the way people view the world and their perception of their own lives. Such meaningful… Continue reading Is It All About the Melody

Part II Mass media Until not so long ago, music was something only played live by musicians in front of audiences. With the appearance of audio recording technology, the concept of the recording artist was born. Suddenly it was no longer just about the live performance, but rather about content that can be distributed globally,… Continue reading Keeping with The Melody

Moving a piano requires planning and effort. Pianos are extremely heavy and their finishes are very vulnerable to scratches, nicks and dents. Even a small upright piano can weigh more than 350 pounds (0.1588 metric tons). Grand pianos can easily weigh over 1,000 pounds (0.4536 metric tons), and older upright pianos tend to be top… Continue reading The Sensitive Nature of the Piano