Steinway & Sons - Technical Info - Caring for Your Steinway

Caring for Your Steinway - Congratulations!

You are the owner of a superb musical instrument. Your Steinway piano is built with supreme care. It is constructed of the best materials available. It is the finest example of the piano-maker's craft.

As a Steinway owner you are part of a discerning inner circle of the music world which includes most of the immortal names associated with the piano. Paderewski, Hofmann, Rachmaninoff...the list goes on, and includes the majority of today's important concert artists, educators and professional musicians.

Your Steinway piano is superior in design and construction to other pianos and with proper care it will give a lifetime of outstanding musical performance. The purpose of this section is to outline the proper procedures for care of your piano, which are essential if you are to derive the greatest joy from it.

You have purchased a thoroughbred and it should be cared for as such. Don't assume that because you have invested in a fine instrument it will perform perfectly without periodic adjustments. It is a highly sophisticated mechanism which contains thousands of individual parts that must function as a perfectly balanced and integrated unit. Routine maintenance will be necessary if it is to continue to perform up to its potential.

The care of your Steinway piano will not be particularly time consuming or expensive. Start right now by spending a few minutes with this section to learn the basics of piano care. After you've finished reading it, we urge you to print a copy and refer to it at least once a year to refresh your memory on proper maintenance procedures.

We suggest that you keep an accurate service record for your piano. This record should be helpful in keeping your maintenance program up to date and will be invaluable if you should ever decide to sell your piano.