This article breaks down piano regulation, starting with pre-regulation — the essential cleaning, polishing, and other adjustments that remove friction and restore proper function.

This is a short post showing a typical repair for Yamaha upright pianos. As a boutique piano dealer serving the DMV, we regularly replace flanges and flange cords to restore upright piano repetition so our pianos play their best.

This is a follow up to an earlier post about key fit which focused more on wobbly keys. This post illustrates the opposite extreme, when piano keys feel too tight or sluggish. As a boutique piano dealer serving the DMV, key easing is a normal part of the job.

If piano keys feel too tight or too loose, a piano may play sluggishly or chaotically, causing control and repetition to suffer. As a boutique piano dealer serving DC, Maryland, and Virginia, we often adjust key fit to maximize a piano’s performance potential.

Over time pianos develop issues like sticky keys and extraneous noises like clicks and buzzes…