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TOP REASONS TO REGULARLY TUNE YOUR PIANO

Keep Your Piano Sounding Beautiful If you’re a pianist, then having a well-tuned piano is essential to playing beautiful music. A properly tuned piano produces a more beautiful and vibrant sound and is more enjoyable to play and practice on. The piano’s sound can change over time due to changes in temperature and humidity. As […]

Latest Piano Restoration! Sherman Clay Upright

Here is the “after” on the Sherman Clay Upright. This piano is beautiful! We never tire of bringing these gorgeous pieces of art back to life. This belongs to a customer of ours. The outside is Rosewood and we completely refinished it. Other cosmetics done are the original pedals are re-plated and the key tops […]

Latest Piano Restoration -Steger and Sons

Our Latest Piano Restoration!

1914 Steger and Sons Upright Piano Check out our Latest Piano Restoration we just finished this amazing piano for a customer! It was in rough condition when it came in, which is very normal for a piano over a hundred years old. We completely replaced all the hammers, all the dampers, shanks, keys, and re-plated […]

What Is a Pitch Raise and Why Do I Need It?

Pianos sound their very best when they are tuned to the international pitch standard of A-440. What A-440 means is the note “A” above middle C will vibrate at 440 cycles per second. To do this, a piano tuner will make minute adjustments to the tensions of the strings of a piano to properly align […]

Hire a Registered Piano Technician for Your Piano

Your piano is an amazing instrument! It has more than 10,000 individual parts that need to be properly maintained in order to keep it looking and sounding great. A Registered Piano Technician (or RPT) is a technician or tuner who is required to pass a rigorous series of tests administered by the Piano Technicians Guild. […]

Rebuild Your Heirloom Piano!

Brigham Larson Pianos specializes in rebuilding heirloom pianos. We are often asked to restore a piano for two main reasons: because it has been passed down through a family for generations or because a person desires the unique aesthetic of an older piano that is difficult to find in modern pianos. We take three paths […]

On a Bed of Dust

When I took off the cabinetry of my most recent piano, I was surprised to see that the keys had been resting on a thick layer of dust. After letting the vacuum feast on the all-you-can eat dust-filled keybed, it looked ten times better! Then I wiped down the keybed and blasted the front and […]

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