WOOD and its effect on the quality and price of a piano.

Pianos are 85% wood. Musical instruments of finer quality are manufactured with quality hardwoods and tone woods. Woods are chosen for their beauty and tonal properties. The types of woods referred to as “musical grades” are getting harder to find and more expensive every year. When a note is played, the string vibrates. Those vibrations
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Piano Maintenance – Tuning My Piano, Part I

How many times a year should I be tuning my piano? Recently I was asked to speak at a local Kids’ Mid-Summer Music Camp and I was pleased and surprised at the number of questions and depth of interest in how to take care of your piano. One of the first questions that is always
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Free Intimate Classical Piano Performance with SANDRA WRIGHT SHEN

Sunday , March 12th 2017 @ 3p.m. GILROY PIANO OUTLET, 8401 Church St. Gilroy 95020 Mandatory RSVP by March 11th 408-767-2990 Or by email: dave@gilroypianooutlet.com Sandra Wright Shen has been described as a classical “pianist of the first order” and a “heartstopping beauty”. With her passion, musicality, and inspiration, she aims to move hearts through
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Great New Music Venue in Gilroy

Lovers of great music performed by virtuosos in an intimate setting are in for an artistic treat in Gilroy. That’s because one of those music lovers is turning a stage in a corner his store into what is hoped will be a long-lived venue for the best in acoustic music. And if its first performer
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