Winter is coming, How to maintain your piano?

With the arrival of winter, across the country completely into the frozen mode. The house has become particularly dry, relative humidity even lower than 20%. In such an environment, wood parts deformation due to shrinkage. There will be insensitive keyboard, hit string weakness, keyboard deformation rugged, piano parts loose or dislocation, some like this problem. Therefore, when the winter is coming, you need to pay more attention to your piano.

1.The place to store your piano

The place to store the piano directly related to the piano's life. Should put the piano away from the heating, air conditioning and other heat sources, do not let the direct sunlight on the piano, it is best placed in the house of the shade. Piano back between the wall should more than 10 cm, prevent moisture from affecting the piano. In addition, the piano to put steady.
The place to store your piano


2.Indoor environment

The room need to keep a stable humidity and temperature, relative humidity need to keep between 40% to 60%, temperature need to keep in around 20 degree. Excessive drying or moisture can cause deformation of the piano parts. A humidifier can be placed in the room to adjust the humidity. It is best to prepare a humidity meter, you can observe the humidity at any time.
Indoor environment

3.Piano adjustment

After entering the winter, the weather has changed, the piano will appear the biggest change in the year. Mechanical loosening dislocation, friction between parts, sometimes there will be some noise. Piano problems should be adjusted in a timely manner, can not let the piano working with "sick". So that can only accelerate the piano wear, shorten the life of the piano. 
Piano adjustment


Therefore, the winter must be have a tuning person to fully debug the piano, even you didn’t feel the problem from the piano. Sometimes parts have to be replaced, inaccurate temperament, will damage the child's hearing, in this way the loss will be greater.

The piano is one of the most sophisticated instruments, it consists of more than 8,000 parts. The precision of parts is very high. Even if only 0.1 mm of error or change, will bring quality problems or failure.

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