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  2. Piano maintenance - Wikipedia

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    The goal of regulation is to make the piano's touch and sound consistent across all notes, allow it to achieve the widest possible range of dynamics comfortably, and make the keys responsive to even the most rapid or most subtle motions of the player. There are many dozens of types of regulation a piano may require.

  3. Action (piano) - Wikipedia

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    The piano action mechanism [1] (also known as the key action mechanism [2] or simply the action) of a piano or other musical keyboard is the mechanical assembly which translates the depression of the keys into rapid motion of a hammer, which creates sound by striking the strings.

  4. Musical keyboard - Wikipedia

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    Pressing a key on the keyboard makes the instrument produce sounds—either by mechanically striking a string or tine (acoustic and electric piano, clavichord), plucking a string (harpsichord), causing air to flow through a pipe organ, striking a bell , or activating an electronic circuit (synthesizer, digital piano, electronic keyboard).

  5. Piano tuning - Wikipedia

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    A man tuning an upright piano. Piano tuning is the process of adjusting the tension of the strings of an acoustic piano so that the musical intervals between strings are in tune. The meaning of the term 'in tune', in the context of piano tuning, is not simply a particular fixed set of pitches. Fine piano tuning requires an assessment of the ...

  6. Piano acoustics - Wikipedia

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    The Railsback curve shows how a piano tuned to compensate for inharmonicity deviates from theoretically correct equal-tempered tuning. The Railsback curve, first measured in the 1930s by O.L. Railsback, a US college physics teacher, expresses the difference between inharmonicity-aware stretched piano tuning, and theoretically correct equal-tempered tuning in which the frequencies of successive ...

  7. Piano Technicians Guild - Wikipedia

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    The Piano Technicians Guild (PTG) is an international professional organization for piano technicians, those who have demonstrated proficiency in piano maintenance, repair, and tuning. Headquartered in Kansas City, Kansas , the PTG was formed in 1957 from the merger of the American Society of Piano Technicians and the National Association of ...

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