If your piano sounds off and this affects your enjoyment, my precision piano tuning is the first place to start. This service visit will make your piano sound clean, clear and resonant. This appointment includes:

1) Pitch measurements to create the most stable tuning for your piano

2) Full tuning of your pianos 230+ pins

3) Playing tests

4) Fine tuning adjustments

$225

Takes about 2 hours but first time appointments usually take around 3 hours to allow time for additional services and repairs if needed.

PLEASE NOTE: There may be a travel fee for appointments farther than a 45 minute drive from Strafford, VT. Please see the bottom of the page for more details.

OPTIONAL ADD ON: If you are hearing a harshness in the sound of your piano, your hammers would benefit greatly from Voicing. This service will notably increase the warmth, volume and depth of your piano. Voicing is the process of adjusting the felts on the hammers. Assessing whether to add this service can happen during your precision tuning appointment $75

If you are a frequent player, add voicing and cleaning to a precision tuning visit with this money saving bundle. After, all these services are performed, your piano will sound clear, deep and full, and look like new on the outside. Voicing your hammers will greatly improve your piano's tone.

Cleaning includes key cleaning, pin vacuuming and polishing, and case dusting and polishing.

This all usually takes around 3 hours.

$395

If your piano sounds off and your keystrokes are uneven or weak, step up to our Power Regulation. As a piano ages, the action (its internal engine) falls out of alignment and becomes insensitive and uneven. By regulating the action, your keys will play with greatly improved sensitivity, fluidity and uniformity.

Power Regulation involves the highly-technical process of adjusting a number of elements of the piano’s action evenly across all 88 keys. You will then be able to experience the dynamics range your piano can offer, from gently soft to vigorously responsive.

This full service usually takes around 5-7 hours depending on the condition of the piano.

Regain your piano’s volume, feeling and control. $895

As a dedicated piano player, you need your piano to be in top condition. Our Piano Spa Day offers our best technician work so your instrument sounds, looks and feels exceptional.

This service begins with repairs and is followed by a concert precision tuning. Then your piano will be ready for a complete Elite Regulation and customized voicing. We will finish the day with a luxurious, comprehensive cleaning.

Repairs include fixing issues such as stuck keys, buzzes, clicking sounds, and pedal issues. This includes most repairs short of major structural problems that call for a rebuild.

Concert precision tuning will prepare your piano for performing and recording at greatly heightened levels of sensitivity.

Elite Regulation will go above and beyond a normal Power Regulation. This highly technical service will return your instrument to its factory specifications with over 30 steps for improving the action across all 88 keys. Your piano will then have vastly improved touch, dynamics, evenness, and playability.

Voicing the hammers will be tailored to your specific wishes for warmth or brightness across different sections. This will bring out the best tone of your piano.

Finally, the entire piano will be cleaned, inside and outside with rust removal, metal polishing and wood polishing as is appropriate.

This comprehensive service usually takes around the 8 hours depending on the condition of the piano.

Overall, the piano will have an incredible tone, a highly-responsive feel and excellent appearance. $1,295 ($1,600-$2,000 value)

Something is getting in the way of your instrument working well for you. Let us know what’s going on and we can diagnose the issue during a tuning appointment. We’ll fix those broken keys or solve those buzzes so you can enjoy your piano to the max.

If you have a missing string or a “false beat” string that sounds sour even after tuning, this services safely removes the old string parts along with careful installation and tensioning of the new string. Please specify which string needs replacing (i.e. G4 or A#7) $95*

*Bass strings may be more as they need to be custom ordered for your piano. An estimate will be provided before string ordering and replacement commences

If your piano is very dusty and dirty, this appointment will allow your instrument to look new again. This service provides global dusting, debris removal, cleaning and polishing of the case, pin area, plate and soundboard. The whole outside and inside! This includes removing the action inside the piano to clean the system for optimal performance.

This deep clean usually takes around 2-3 hours, depending the condition of the piano.

Only piano industry standard, non-toxic cleaning supplies are used.

$275

A popular add-on for a tuning appointment. Make sure that your home insurance includes the value of your piano so you can easily replace if it anything happens. You will receive a detailed, written report emailed as a PDF.

$145

If you are considering getting that piano on Craigslist, you may be wondering whether the price and the moving cost will be worth it. This service visit will include a full inspection of the over 10,000 essential parts of the piano. You will also be able to ask questions and will receive a written report about the state of the piano. You'll know what you would be getting and if the price is right for you. $145

If you are thinking about selling your piano, you may be wondering how much you can get for it. This assessment will give you a full sense of the marketability of the piano along with a play test and written report. You can also ask questions. Piano sales strategies customized to your instrument will be offered on request. $145

You are thinking of selling a piano and you know it is worth something. This sale accelerator service allows you to sell the piano at a higher price by wowing your buyer with how great the piano looks and sounds. The piano will receive a full precision tuning, customized voicing and a solid clean.

After the precision tuning, the hammers will be conditioned to bring out the best tone in the piano. I will then then dust the visible parts of the piano along with polishing the case, cleaning the keys and vacuuming the visible pinblock area. You will be able to ask questions. You will receive a written report about the piano's unique selling points. Additional strategies about how to increase the value of the piano available on request. $325

Piano manufacturers say that pianos should be tuned 2-4 times a year.

Frequent players prefer twice a year while occasional players usually choose once a year. Serious pianists prefer every 3 months.

A piano is a masterful construction of wood, felt, leather and steel. Changes in humidity alter the wood elements and thus the string tension, throwing the piano out of tune. Keeping the humidity at about 45% is the best way to need less tuning and maintenance. Feel free to contact us for humidification advice.

A first-time tuning appointments takes around 2 hours. This allows us to thoroughly assess your piano and provide it with the best tuning possible. Follow up tuning visits in the same year usually take 1-1.5 hours.

Payment happens upon completion of the piano servicing appointments. Checks written to “Emerson Gale” are accepted.

On a case by case basis, I am happy to discuss a payment plans so you family can enjoy your piano again and pay for the work over time.