Piano Care Guide
How Often Should You Tune a Piano?
Twice a year is the honest baseline for most Colorado homes, and here is why the interval changes.
How Often Should You Tune a Piano?
Manufacturers recommend two to four tunings per year for a piano in regular use. In Longmont the deciding factor is rarely how much you play; it is how much the humidity in the room swings between January and July.
New pianos need more frequent attention during their first two years while strings stretch and settle. Four tunings in year one is normal, not a sales pitch.
Teaching studios, churches and recording rooms should tune quarterly. A piano that is played four hours a day drifts faster than one played four hours a week.
If a piano has sat untuned for several years it will likely need a pitch raise followed by a fine tuning, sometimes in the same visit and sometimes weeks apart.
Where Wendylario Co. fits in
If anything in this guide describes your instrument, a short phone conversation is usually enough for us to tell you whether it is a quick fix or a bigger project. We serve Longmont, Boulder and the whole Front Range, and we quote before we work.