The blog of a piano technician.
Relative humidity fluctuates from day to day. Those fluctuations wreak havoc on wood furniture and pianos over the years as they cause the wood to expand and contract. This can lead to cracked soundboards, separated pin blocks, separated glue joints, sticking keys, and host of other problems.
If you never plan to have your piano in a concert, why would it need to be at concert pitch? The answer is quite simple. That is the way your piano was designed to be tuned.
What is the difference between a piano technician and a piano tuner? In most cases, they are one and the same. Many people refer to technicians as tuners. There is a distinction to be made though.
When a technician brings a piano up to pitch during a pitch raise, the first strings that are tuned will gradually go slightly back out of tune as the technician increases and equalizes the tension throughout the piano.
