Piano Care
Protecting your instrument and investment!
Many people don’t realize the debris buildup inside their piano, especially with pets. It’s like an AC filter that needs regular cleaning to run smoothly.
Our detailing service improves playability, removes harmful particles, and keeps your home environment healthy.
We clean and buff the cabinet, strings, soundboard, crevices, and keys; clean the action; replace necessary parts; regulate the action to factory specs and tune to A440 — all in your home!
For pianos with mold, pests, or storm damage, we recommend a deeper cleaning outside the home.
We offer basic and deep detailing services, and recommend scheduling a cleaning approx. once a year for optimal piano playability and protecting your investment.
ask about our Detailing & custom string covers today!
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Humidity & Your Piano
All acoustic instruments need to have some type of controlled environment. Keeping the right amount of moisture in the piano will protect the life of the piano as well as keep the tunings more stable and consistent year in and year out. Major manufacturers such as: Steinway and Yamaha recommend Dampp-Chaser.
Ask your professionally trained piano technician, who is also a certified damp chaser installer on your next appointment.
2 part
Dehumidification system
A 2 - Part System
At its most elemental, the Piano Life Saver System automatically and continuously monitors the humidity inside your piano and regulates it to maintain a stable environment.
Ask your professionally trained piano technician, who is also a certified damp chaser installer on your next appointment.
2 - part dehumidification system
Humidistat
The humidistat constantly monitors relative humidity and senses whether the surrounding air is too dry or too damp.
Available for Upright & grands.
2 part Dehumidification system
Dehumidification
System
When the humidity level is too high, the dehumidifier automatically kicks in and warms the damp air to encourage proper air flow and lower moisture levels.
Here in South Florida we recommend everyone to have one for their piano as Florida is known for its humidity.
Benefits Of Consistent Humidity
Your piano is made primarily of wood, felt, wool and metal.
Fluctuations in humidity can impact all these elements. In the same way a door sticks on a humid day, or hair gets frizzy, humidity fluctuations impact the components of your piano.
The Piano Life Saver levels out humidity fluctuations, alleviating many negative side effects and ultimately prolonging the life of your piano.
examples of what a dehumidification system can do for your instrument
The soundboard is the single largest piece of wood in your piano. It is the speaker of the piano. In order for the piano to have proper tone, the strings, bridge, and soundboard must be in tension together. To make this occur, the piano is designed and built so that the strings have a slight downward angle on both sides of the bridge. This is called down bearing. Along with this, the soundboard must have a slight upward curve which is called crown. The down bearing and crown must be very precise. It takes very little change to dramatically compromise the tone.
When the humidity drops, the soundboard shrinks and flattens, lowering the tension of the strings. The pitch will drop or become flat. The technician will have to perform a pitch raise to bring the piano back to the proper pitch before a fine tuning can be done. When the humidity rises, the soundboard absorbs moisture from the air, making it swell and increasing the crown. Now, the pitch will go up or become sharp.
Because the Piano Life Saver maintains a safe level of humidity in your piano, rust is much less likely to form on your strings. Remember, never clean your strings with a damp cloth!
Actual pianos may differ from photos. Photos only used to give general idea of what components look like. Grand and vertical piano components will vary and only one may be pictured.
examples of what a dehumidification system can do for your instrument
The complex mechanical linkage that starts with the key that you press with your fingers, and ends with the hammer striking the strings is called the action. It quite literally has thousands of wooden parts that must all be precisely adjusted to work perfectly together. This adjustment process is called regulation. When the humidity changes, the precision is lost, resulting in the touch you have grown accustomed to changing and becoming inconsistent. Primarily in a vertical piano, the Piano Life Saver System will help counteract these issues.
Just as doors and drawers become tight and difficult to move, the keys of your piano may respond slowly or even stick down in times of high humidity.
Because the Piano Life Saver maintains a safe level of humidity in your piano, rust is much less likely to form on your strings. Remember, never clean your strings with a damp cloth!
Actual pianos may differ from photos. Photos only used to give general idea of what components look like. Grand and vertical piano components will vary and only one may be pictured.
examples of what a dehumidification system can do for your instrument
Just as doors and drawers become loose in dry air, the keys of your piano may rattle or become mechanically noisy. When the wooden action parts shrink from dryness, they become loose and can move around. This will lead to premature wear of these parts and costly repairs in the future.
Over time, constant changes in humidity levels, with the corresponding shrinking and swelling of the soundboard, will damage the integrity of the soundboard. You will see this damage in the form of pressure ridges and cracks in the board. A crack in your soundboard has an extremely negative affect on the value of your piano. By maintaining a constant level of humidity in your piano, the Piano Life Saver virtually eliminates these damaging humidity level swings and protects your instrument.
Because the Piano Life Saver maintains a safe level of humidity in your piano, rust is much less likely to form on your strings. Remember, never clean your strings with a damp cloth!
Actual pianos may differ from photos. Photos only used to give general idea of what components look like. Grand and vertical piano components will vary and only one may be pictured.
examples of what a dehumidification system can do for your instrument
Piano strings are under tremendous tension. The strings are coiled around tuning pins that are driven into holes in a multilayered piece of wood, usually maple, called the pinblock. The tuning pin is actually slightly larger than the hole that it is driven into. The resulting tight fit is necessary for the piano to be tune-able.
When the humidity increases, swelling the wood, the tuning pins may become so tight that the technician has trouble making the delicate adjustments that are necessary in a fine tuning. When the humidity level drops, the pinblock will shrink, resulting in loose tuning pins. This can result in a piano that will not hold tune very long or even render it completely untuneable. At this point you must either replace the pinblock or the piano.
Because the Piano Life Saver maintains a safe level of humidity in your piano, rust is much less likely to form on your strings. Remember, never clean your strings with a damp cloth!
Actual pianos may differ from photos. Photos only used to give general idea of what components look like. Grand and vertical piano components will vary and only one may be pictured.
examples of what a dehumidification system can do for your instrument
The up and down cycling of humidity can also cause the layers in the pinblock to delaminate. This is virtually always accompanied by cracks developing within the layers themselves. The cost of this type of repair can often exceed the value of the piano.
The Piano Life Saver keeps a constant moisture content in the wooden parts of the piano, ensuring ease of tuning, stability, and a long life for the pinblock in your vertical piano.
The strings of your piano are responsible for producing the musical sounds. With exposure to high humidity levels over long periods, strings become rusted and corroded.
At the junction where rusted strings wrap around rusted pins, rust corrosion forms a hardened bond between the two. Then, during a tuning, when your piano technician turns the pins to stretch the strings, the inflexible, rusted string snaps at this joint.
Because the Piano Life Saver maintains a safe level of humidity in your piano, rust is much less likely to form on your strings.
PIANO DETAILING
Many people don’t realize the debris buildup inside their piano, especially with pets. It’s like an AC filter that needs regular cleaning to run smoothly. Our detailing service improves playability, removes harmful particles, and keeps your home environment healthy.
We clean and buff the cabinet, strings, soundboard, crevices, and keys; clean the action; replace necessary parts; regulate the action to factory specs and tune to A440 — all in your home!
For pianos with mold, pests, or storm damage, we recommend a deeper cleaning outside the home.
We offer basic and deep detailing services, and recommend scheduling a cleaning at least once a year for optimal piano health.
Ask about our custom string covers today!
Our Custom hand cut string covers
Ask about our custom gold embroidery designs for a unique touch.
“They are all beautiful! Wow! I really like the Rambling Vine! Turned out Beautiful!”
- Netta S
- Proudly MADE IN THE USA! 100% Wool
- Matching Custom Sets
String Covers and Key Covers can be ordered as a matching set.
When paired with our Dehumidification System and Sensor, you’ll have beautiful coverage that complements your décor
while protecting your piano from excess moisture, fine dust, and debris – preserving your instrument and investment.
- Fade Resistant
All String Covers and Key Covers are fade-resistant.
- Special Detail
Ask about our custom gold embroidery designs for a unique touch.
- Helps maintain the correct moisture content on the wooden soundboard.
- Covers the strings, pins, and metal moving parts of the piano action without muting the sound.
- Mitigates debris and rust – key enemies of your piano's function, especially in Florida's climate.
- Easy care and roll-up removal, designed in-house by a tuner/technician, at affordable prices.
- Available in a variety of colors and custom embroidery designs along the border.
Check out this hilarious nostalgic Marx Brothers piano scene! Some talented brothers eh?
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In Honor of John, Buddy, Morris & Frank Brower
Grateful to have served Florida & NJ for over 45 years, and honored to continue with John’s wife, Cher, and daughter, Triana.
Ready to restore, repair, or tune your piano? Let's preserve its legacy for future generations of music lovers.
We look forward to being part of your piano’s story!
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