Caring for Your Steinway - Maintaining the Steinway Sound: Tuning Voicing and Regulating
- Congratulations!
- The Steinway & Sons Warranty
- General Instructions
- Care of the Piano's Interior
- Maintaining the Steinway Sound: Tuning Voicing and Regulating
- Living with Your Steinway Piano
- Storing and Moving Your Steinway Piano
The design and workmanship which are part of your Steinway piano endow it with extraordinary capabilities as a musical instrument. To get the most out of it, periodic adjustment will be required.
Routine service is part of piano ownership and you should consider it no more unusual than the maintenance program you would have for an automobile, boat, or airplane you might own.
There are three basic steps in maintaining the sound of your piano: tuning, which brings the piano back to pitch: voicing, which affects the piano's tone, or quality of sound: and regulating, which is adjustment of the action mechanism and affects the touch of the piano.
These three steps, tuning, voicing and regulating, are exacting jobs which consumed many weeks during the final stage of building your Steinway piano. They should be performed again at intervals recommended in this section. The three adjustments are customarily performed by the same technician and a brief discussion of each should help you better understand what is needed, when, and why.