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In today’s article from Howard Piano Industries I will be giving you some ideas, tips, and hints on what to look for when you’re purchasing a used piano. The most common place to look for a used piano is on Craigslist or through other online channels such as Facebook. So, I will go through some of the criteria, because if you are looking for a piano for the first time you might not know what kind of piano you should be looking for based on your budget. The first thing you will need to do is …

Welcome to our introduction on tuning a piano. This will not be a complete course on piano tuning and repair, but it will give you the basics and prepare you to tune your own piano or get you started as a new piano technician. We will focus on using an electronic tuning device in order to tune because I feel that for a beginning tuner it gets you started and can get you to the point of being able to tune a piano and learn some of the hammer techniques, control, setting the pin, and other t …

One of the most common issues in pianos is a sticky or sticking key. This problem could mean many different things as there are various things that could cause what we consider to be a sticking key. This article will go through some of the more common things that you would come across and that would be solutions to fixing a sticking key. It's also not just necessarily always one thing that is causing the problem. This article will walk you through the steps of checking the causes if you h …

When a person starts out a business as a piano technician, getting work can be a bit of a challenge.  It would be nice if as a new technician the skills were learned and one day we all of a sudden had a full schedule of work year round.  Unfortunately this isn't realistic in most cases.  Unless we purchase or inherit the business of a piano technician who is either retiring or relocating, most people need to work hard to acquire the business needed in order to have enough to suppo …

Have you ever wondered if you could tune your own piano?  This thought crosses the minds of some piano owners.  It could be that you have a piano that hasn't been tuned for a long time and don't have the resources to get it tuned.  This could be because there isn't a piano technician near you, or you don't have the funds to hire a piano technician to come and tune your piano.  Or it could be that you are just interested in trying to do the job yourself.  I will caution y …