Expert acoustic piano services in Toronto & Southern Ontario.Meticulous pitch corrections, action regulations, precision repairs, and certified appraisals led by our master concert piano tuner with 25 years of elite professional experience.
Pianos are highly sensitive stringed keyboard instruments. We provide standard international pitch adjustments, precise mechanical regulations, and certified appraisal services at locked, transparent rates.
Standard international A440 Hz fine tuning for upright, spinet, console, and studio vertical pianos. Includes thorough structural inspection and environmental assessment at zero extra charge.
Meticulous fine tuning to A440 Hz for baby grand, parlor grand, and full concert grand pianos. Mapped out unisons and precise harmonic tension balances for optimal tone.
Fixing broken strings, replacing worn felts, regulating actions, sticky key releases, hammer shaving, and full key weight adjustments to restore crisp, responsive touch.
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Every single tuning, repair, and voicing service is personally led and executed by our chief technician—a **prestigious concert piano tuner with over 25 years of master career credentials**. Having tuned for world-class concert halls, symphonic keyboard artists, university music departments, and premier recording studios across Southern Ontario, we bring elite concert-grade acoustic perfection to your upright or grand piano.
Pianos that have not been tuned for over a year typically fall significantly flat. If the pitch of the middle "A" string is 30 cents lower than standard pitch (440 Hz), executing a standard fine-tuning immediately will load the wooden frame with immense, uneven tension, causing it to slip out of tune instantly. In these cases, a Pitch Raise pass (pre-tuning pass) is legally required to stabilize string tension before the final fine-tuning can succeed.
To help you preserve your investment, we have compiled essential, physical guidelines regarding piano maintenance, tuning, and structural touch regulation.
Your piano may be placed against any wall in a well insulated home, except in direct lines with sunlight, or near a heating and / or air conditioning vent. The best location is usually against an inside wall. If possible, and for best performance, try to keep the room temperature between 22°C to 25°C with a relative humidity factor of 40% to 50%. Excessive dryness and extreme humidity are both highly harmful to the piano. Dryness reduces the moisture content of the soundboard and can weaken the glue joints of the pinblock, leading to costly rebuilding. Dampness can cause rust on strings and swelling in action parts, leading to stuck keys.
When moving a vertical (upright) piano, always be sure to lift the piano off the front casters and roll the piano solely on the rear casters. When moving a grand piano, the instrument must always be lifted and carried rather than rolled on its legs. By rolling a grand, a leg could easily snap off under pressure, causing the piano to fall to the floor. It is always better to hire a qualified and bonded piano mover. An inexperienced mover with the wrong equipment can cause serious structural damage to the instrument and your home.
Tuning is the mechanical adjustment made to the tuning pins by a certified technician to bring each string to its proper tension. There are approximately 230 separate strings on a piano, each carrying between 160 and 200 pounds of tension. The standard international pitch is A440—meaning the string above middle C vibrates at exactly 440 cycles per second. If a piano is allowed to fall 1/2 step below pitch, it removes 3,000 to 5,000 pounds of structural tension from the soundboard and frame, requiring a professional Pitch Raise to restore stability.
Constant changes in atmospheric conditions affect your piano. The wood elements in the soundboard, pin block, and bridges continually expand (swelling when humid) and contract (shrinking when dry). This phenomenon, combined with the constant tension pulling the strings, causes strings to stretch and contract unevenly. Some strings stretch at a different rate than others, throwing the unisons out of tune.
All pianos go out of tune, whether played or not, due to atmospheric expansion. New pianos should be tuned three to four times in their first year to stretch the new strings. Thereafter, twice a year is recommended, ideally six weeks after weather changes when relative humidity stabilizes. Pianos used in concerts, recording studios, or television are tuned before each individual performance.
Yes. If you want your piano to have a long and useful life, it must be kept in tune even when not in use. The 20+ tons of massive tension on the structural strings must be held under proper, balanced control to prevent structural twisting of the iron plate and timber joints.
No. Tuning sets the correct pitch of each individual note. It is physically impossible for standard tuning to affect the underlying tone of a piano. The tone of a piano can only be changed by voicing the wool hammers.
After considerable use, the wool hammer felts become compacted and hard, and the steel strings cut deep grooves in the striking surface, producing a harsh, bright tone. With average home use, the hammers require revoicing (needle pricking and reshaping) every two to three years. Voicing should only be done by a highly skilled master technician.
Touch is the energy required to depress a piano key until the hammer strikes the string. A pianist refers to touch as responsiveness. Regulation is the mechanical adjustment of the action parts. There are about 11,000 parts in a piano, over 4,000 of which are moving parts. Over time, felt pads compress and joints loosen. We recommend completely regulating the action every 5 years to safeguard your investment from wear, mice, or moths, ensuring full expressive control.
We are Southern Ontario's premier piano tuning specialists, led by a master concert piano tuner with 25 years of elite experience, led by a master concert piano tuner with 25 years of elite experience. 12 consecutive years HomeStars Best Of Award Winners. WSIB certified and backed by a robust, complimentary $2M liability insurance policy.