If for any reason that isn't possible, hopefully these pointers will help make your purchase less stressful and risky. Four questions to ask before going to see the Piano.
When was the Piano last tuned? If it is fairly recently tuned, you can always ask for the Piano tuner's contact details and speak to them about the Piano. Any good tuner will have notes on the instruments they look after, so will hopefully be able to give you an idea of the overall condition of the Piano. How does it look?
Make sure you have a photo of the Piano with the top door removed. This is what is known as a straight strung, over damper Piano, and the vast majority of these for sale on eBay and Gumtree are barely useful as firewood.
I'm always happy to give an opinion on a Piano, but this is the first photo I'll ask for. How old is the Piano? Ask for the serial number. On older Pianos this will allow you to find out the age of the instrument, and on a newer instrument it can alert you to any which are not legally allowed to be sold. It could have been purchased on finance and the seller is attempting to sell the Piano on before they have fully paid for it, or it could be a rental instrument they don't even own.
How often has the Piano been played? If it has been played heavily for years, the action will probably need to be regulated, and the hammers may need to be refaced. If it hasn't been touched in years, you can guarantee that parts will have seized up and stopped working. Four things to look for when you see the Piano.
Where is it? Pianos like a stable, dry environment. If it's by a radiator, window, fireplace, or anything that will cause the temperature and humidity to regularly fluctuate, it's likely to have problems with tuning and regulation, and perhaps damage to the soundboard and bridges. Does it work? It may seem obvious, but check that all the notes play and repeat properly.
Any that don't can probably be repaired, but if there are a lot that don't work it might not be economical to repair. If you notice that a patch of keys are particularly out of tune compared to the rest of the Piano, that's a major red flag, suggesting a problem with the pin block, a likely fatal issue for the Piano. Are there any cracks?
Take off the top and bottom doors and make sure you have a torch handy. Check over the iron frame for any cracks, and on the wooden sound board for any cracks. If there are two of you, one person can look for any light coming through from the other side. Older Pianos are often not designed for modern homes with underfloor heating and even radiators. Cracks in the soundboard can seriously damage the tone and the tuning stability of a Piano.
Although a faded or dented cabinet may not impact the playability of the Piano, it's often a good indicator to how well the Piano has been cared for throughout it's life.
They feel different because our brains like to play tricks on us. While this does help absorb some of the sound, nothing can make up for it being more difficult to play soft passages on higher-tension pianos. Another compromise that had to be made with higher-tension models was shorter performance life.
First, the main reason why a piano will no longer be tunable is pin block failure. Pin blocks under less stress last longer which means the piano lasts longer. Second, when a tuner is tuning a piano with less pressure on the pins, the pins slide more easily into place and tend not to slide out of place.
If you listen to a piano tuner tune which we do all of the time you can actually hear pins skipping. Over stretching the strings shortens their life and, again, effectively shortens the life of the instrument.
As computer technology evolved, computer aided design CAD took on a major role in the development of lower-tension pianos — which everybody wanted — that cost the same as higher-tension models. Servicing Communities along the Wasatch Front. There are over 12, parts in a piano, 10, which are moving.
There is approximately 18 tons of pressure being exerted by the stretched steel piano strings. In a concert grand, it is close to 30 tons of pressure. The average string having about pounds of tension. There are strings inside a typical piano. The action of a grand is superior in many ways to a vertical piano, one being that any key can be repeated reset faster than any vertical upright regardless of the name given by manufacturers i.
If all of the strings were of the same thickness and under the same tension, with high C being the usual two inches , low C would have to be about thirty feet long. For this reason, lower strings are weighted by wrapping copper or iron wire around the core wire.
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