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Allegro Piano Service performs tuning and repair services in Berkeley. The company has been in business since 1989 and offers a variety of services to meet all piano maintenance needs. As one satisfied customer wrote, “We’ve had Allegro Piano Service tune our grand piano for several years now … the resulting tuning has always been excellent.” The company not only tunes pianos but also does pitch raises, voicing, leg repairs, and action rebuilding.
San Francisco Bay Area Piano Tuning Service in Oakland has worked on pianos in the East Bay area for more than 35 years. Bay Area Piano Tuning Service handles all makes and brands of pianos and provides complete piano services, including tuning and repairs, minor restorations, climate control systems, and voicing. The company was named the Bay Area’s best piano tuning service in the San Francisco Bay Guardian’s “Best of the Bay 2007” awards.
Brani Piano provides high-quality tuning and repair services in San Francisco. The company offers basic and premium piano maintenance plans. The basic plan includes tuning and clean-up of surface dust and key tops. Brani Piano also sells pre-owned pianos with a five-year warranty and free maintenance services.
Callahan Piano Service is a family-owned and operated piano tuning and repair company in Oakland that has been in business for almost 50 years. The company was featured in Oscar® winner John Korty’s documentary Miracle in a Box. Owner John Callahan is a member of the Piano Technicians Guild. The company has more than 6,000 customers, including churches, recital halls, and recording studios, and has become the largest piano service organization in the Bay Area. The company’s services include tuning, voicing, refinishing, and reconditioning pianos.
Chuck Terpo Piano Service is a piano tuning company in San Rafael. Owner Chuck Terpo began as an apprentice in 1977 and moved to the Bay Area a year later, where he became a top tuner and technician specializing in Steinway pianos. Mr. Terpo has performed concert tunings for a number of renowned artists, including BB King, Harry Connick Jr., and many others. The company also restores and refinishes pianos, as well as performs comprehensive regulation of the keyboard, action, and dampers.
Denzil’s Piano Service in San Leandro is a piano maintenance and repair shop. The husband-and-wife owners moved back to the Bay Area in 1978 and opened their business shortly after. The husband is a registered piano technician with the Piano Technicians Guild. The company has rebuilt uprights and grand pianos made by brands such as Steinway, Yamaha, Baldwin, and Bosendorfer. The company also tunes, reconditions, and voices pianos, as well as installs climate control systems. Denzil’s Piano Service works on historical pianos and harpsichords dating from the early 1800s, including birdcage uprights and Viennese grands.
Elisabeth Bell Piano Service in Fairfax has been tuning and repairing instruments in the Bay Area for more than three decades. Owner Elisabeth Bell has tuned pianos for clients such as Liberace and Ray Charles. She does standard piano tuning as well as pitch raise and historical temperament tuning services. She also does hammer reshaping, action lubrication, and voicing for spinets, uprights, and grands, as well as provides piano lessons.
Ilvedson Piano Services in Pacifica has completed professional tuning and repairs of pianos throughout the Bay Area for more than 43 years. The company’s basic service plan includes tuning, pedal adjustment, and vacuuming. The company also will perform a pitch raise or handle simple repairs for an additional small fee. Among the company’s clients are the San Francisco Ballet School and the American Conservatory Theater.
In Tune Piano Services has provided piano tuning services in Walnut Creek for the past 12 years. The company offers new client specials and a referral program for tuning and repair work. The company also consults on piano purchases, provides appraisals, and sells and consigns new and pre-owned pianos. In Tune Piano Services has both evening and weekend appointments available.
Mitchell Piano Service in San Francisco offers tuning, regulation, voicing, and repair services. Owner Rob Mitchell is a full-service piano tuner and Yamaha Disklavier™ technician who is a registered piano technician with the Piano Technicians Guild. Among Mitchell Piano Service’s best-known clients are the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Chabot College, and Skyline College. The company offers two levels of general turning services as well as a tone building and voicing service.
Pro PianoWorks is a complete piano resource center in Walnut Creek. The company sells new and pre-owned pianos and also does consignments. The company also offers piano tuning, regulation, voicing, rebuilding, and refinishing services. Pro PianoWorks also does smoke and water remediation of pianos damaged in fires.
San Francisco Piano Tuner is a piano maintenance company in San Francisco. The company provides expert piano tuning and repair services. All services provided by San Francisco Piano Tuner are 100 percent guaranteed. Call on San Francisco Piano Repair to provide an inspection prior to a piano purchase. The company also performs repairs such as broken pedals, broken action parts, restringing, and sticky keys.
SF Piano Works is a piano tuning business in San Francisco that restores older pianos for homeowners and people involved with music studios. It offers advanced tuning services for standard pianos, including spinets, uprights, and grands, as well as pneumatic player pianos. Its prelude services provide a combination of piano voicing, adjustments, repairs, vacuuming, cleaning, and pitch raising. SF Piano Works also fixes broken strings, pedals, and the mechanical tone of Square Grand pianos.
Piano tuners make minor adjustments to the tension on a piano’s strings. These adjustments help ensure the piano’s musical intervals between the strings are in tune. A piano tuner isn't the same as a piano technician, who can do more extensive repairs on the instrument.
Tuning a piano is a very delicate process that takes a slow hand and a careful ear. Piano tuners use a tuning lever tool to slowly adjust the piano pins. The pins are turned to loosen or tighten the strings until the piano plays notes clearly.
Generally speaking, it’s best to have a piano tuned twice a year as part of regular maintenance. However, if you live in a climate with extreme temperatures or high humidity, you may need to have your piano tuned as many as four to six times a year.
Most piano tuners will schedule your appointment for two hours, although the actual work should only take around an hour and a half. If your piano is extremely out of tune or hasn’t been tuned in a while, it might take two and a half hours.
Yes, tuning a piano is hard. The tuner has to test every string and listen if the sound produced is off-note. Piano tuning requires a good ear, a steady hand, and patience. If done incorrectly, the piano can continue to pay off-note. Or, even worse, the strings may snap.
