My tuner says my piano needs repairs or regulation or key tops replaced. Is a repair necessary before tuning the piano?
Before you decide to have your piano tuned, please check all the keys to see if they can play. Can you hear the sound? Do the keys return to the original position or do they want to stay down and not come back up? If your keys are not functional, this makes the tuning of those notes difficult to do, so its best to have a technician do the repairs first, then follow up with a piano tuning once all the keys are functional again. Key top replacements do not usually prevent a piano from being tuned so this work can be done after a piano is tuned if need be.
