Burton Piano Tuning

Piano Tuning, Repairs, Valuation, Removals

Matt is a full time piano tuner technician based in Burton Upon Trent. He offers grand and upright piano complex tuning and repair service mainly in Staffordshire and Derbyshire but will travel anywhere in UK if reqired.

Burton Piano Tuning cooperate with several tuners /restorers and local piano shops.

Free advice when buying piano, also can arrange profesional piano removals company on request.

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If you have any queries please email me at
mattkedracki@gmail.com

Recently i tuned pianos for
-Eric Reynolds Piano Shop http://www. used-pianos. co. uk /
And Recording studios such as
-Mwinci Studios (Pembrokeshire) http://mwncistudios.com/
-Arch Recordings Studio (Burton-on-Trent)
-Paget High Shool Burton On trent
- http://www. archrecordings. co. uk /

Why your piano should be tuned at least one a year?
The piano is a unique instrument, with the largest range of pitches of any musical acoustic device. In the early l9 th century the use of the cast-iron frame for stringing was introduced in the US, which stabilized much of the force of the steel strings, as compared to previous pianos which were plagued by the expansion and contraction of wood members under compression. Iron made tuning much more stable, but the case and soundboard have all the propensities of wood to change in response to changes in heating and the seasonal humidities. So it is usual for pianists who are concerned with keeping their instrument in relative tune to have the piano tuned twice a year, first when in spring the air becomes more humid, and again in the fall when the effect of a heating system starts to shrink wood parts.




Piano sound is complex. The instrument itself involves an action with several thousand moving parts, a wood soundboard supported by ribs connecting to a rigid case, and the soundboard itself which under pressure from strings resting on two separate bridges, resounds and transmits the sound to the elastic air medium.




But this is no simple relationship, like that of a vibrating tuning fork touched to your dining room table. The characteristic sound of the "piano" is the result of many interlocking factors relating to the length and thickness of the individual strings, the impedance matching of the soundboard, and the "in-harmonicity" of the piano considered as a whole, since multiple modes are involved across the spectrum of the traditional 88 notes.