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 I allow 3 hours for first time appointments in case additional services and repairs are 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 $75-150

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.

This all usually takes around 4 hours.

$495

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 dynamic range your piano can offer, from gently soft to vigorously responsive.

This full service includes a precision tuning before the regulation as well as a hammer voicing after. This all usually takes around 7 hours depending on the condition of the piano.

Regain your piano’s volume, feeling and control. $1295

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 fine hammer voicing and a luxurious cleaning. Needed basic repairs will be taken care of and followed by a concert precision tuning. Then your piano will be ready for a complete Power Regulation.

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.

Then the entire piano will be cleaned, inside and outside with debris/dust/dirt removal and polishing .

Repairs are such services fixing issues such as stuck keys, buzzes, clicking sounds, and pedal issues. This includes most repairs short of major structural problems such as those call for an action rebuild.

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

Power Regulation is a 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.

This comprehensive service usually takes around the 8-13 hours (a day to a day and half) depending on the condition of the piano.

Overall, the piano will have an incredible tone, a highly-responsive feel and excellent appearance. $1,795

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. An in-person estimate of the repairs for approval will be provided before the work begins.

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 need to be custom ordered for your piano so add +$35 for the cost of each custom bass string

If your piano is 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 3-4 hours, depending the condition of the piano.

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

$395

You use woodheat all winter or your piano is near a radiator. Or perhaps your piano gets mildew and mold inside of it.

Install a Piano Life Saver (Dampp Chaser) system to prevent soundboard cracks, rusting and other common piano killers. This makes sure your upright doesn't becomes an ISO (Instrument Shaped Object)!

The service includes the cost for the materials and parts for the entire Piano Life Saver Grand Dampp Chaser system as well as the labor.

$895

You use woodheat all winter or your piano is near a radiator. Or perhaps your piano gets mildew and mold inside of it.

Install a Piano Life Saver (Dampp Chaser) system to prevent soundboard cracks, rusting and other common piano destroyers . Protect your investment!

The service includes the cost for the materials and parts for the entire Piano Life Saver Grand Dampp Chaser system as well as the labor.

$995

Enhance your existing and newly installed grand piano's Piano Life Saver system by adding an undercover:

1) The undercover will notably improve the humidifying and dehumidifying capabilities of your Piano Life Saver system.

2) The undercover will upgrade the physical appearance of the piano by neatly concealing all the wires, plugs, tank and screws of the Piano Life Saver.

$195

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 piano is right you.

$145

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 42% 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 3 hours. This allows us to thoroughly assess your piano and provide it with the best tuning possible. This also grants time for you to ask questions as well as optional add-ons like stuck key repair, cleaning and hammer voicing.

Payment happens upon completion of a piano servicing appointment. Checks written to “Emerson Gale Piano Service” are preferred.

We are happy to discuss a payment plans so you family can enjoy your piano again and pay for the work over time.