Find a piano tuner in Manchester

Chords that sound sour, octaves that seem to shimmer or beat, or one note that sounds different from the ones either side of it. Even if nothing sounds wrong, a piano in an ordinary Greater Manchester home wants a tuner every six to twelve months. A piano kept close to pitch is cheaper to look after than one left for years and then pulled back up.

Central heating. The soundboard is wood, and it swells in the damp autumn air and shrinks again once the radiators are on, which drags the strings with it. Keep the piano off outside walls and away from radiators and direct sun, and try to keep the room at a steady temperature. A tuning booked once the heating has settled in for the season will hold far better.

Each tuner sets their own price, so ask when you ring. As a rough guide, a standard tuning from an independent tuner around Greater Manchester is usually somewhere between £60 and £100, with more for a pitch raise or repairs. We take nothing from it either way.

Give it a fortnight to a month in its new room first. The instrument has to settle to the new temperature and humidity, and tuning it the day after the move usually means paying for a second visit soon after. If it was badly out before the move, tell the tuner when you book.

Usually not. A buyer will want it tuned in their own house anyway. What is worth having is a tuner's honest opinion on its condition, because that tells you whether it is worth selling at all. If it turns out the piano has had its day, we collect and recycle unwanted pianos across Greater Manchester.

No. Every tuner here runs their own independent business. We move pianos rather than tune them, and we put this list together because customers ask us for a tuner almost every week. Anything you arrange is between you and the tuner.