A piano needs around fifteen adjustments for each of its 88 notes, which is 1,320 in total ! The accuracy of these adjustments ranges for example from 1 to 2 mm for keeping the hammers a precise distance from the strings to 1/10 mm for levelling the keys.
Why adjust the settings of your piano ?
- Firstly, to avoid breakdowns.
- Then, to make the touch of your piano more precise and so as pleasant as possible.
- To improve the repetition of the keys.
- Finally the touch should be consistent from the first to the last key.
In some ways, adjusting the settings is going to optimise your piano’s potential. Of course, if you have a bottom of the range instrument reaching the end of its life, adjusting the settings is not going to produce a miracle and it is not going to become a concert piano. Let’s be serious ! They will certainly avoid you becoming disheartened with practising or the quality of your instrument, because even for a child who is a beginner and using a study piano (and I will even add, above all, for a child who is a beginner), it is essential that the instrument is not factor which limits learning and the pleasure of playing.
How many clients tell me: “I could no longer stand playing this piano and I thought that there was nothing else to do ! It has never been like that. You have brought it back to life !”
