Remember: the taller the piano or in the case of a grand the longer a piano, the longer the strings, in which case the more room for the action of the piano to take place. All of the little parts that move and need to be regulated have more room to move and the fuller and better your piano will sound and stay in tune better and have a better tone quality. But how do you tell one from a console? Here is a simple guide to piano height and what it can tell you about your piano.
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Another thing to look at when buying a piano is the string spacing and where certain strings are placed inside the piano. If you look inside and see that the strings and pins holding them are spaced evenly and orderly you can see that it was all built to scale. This is what you want to be looking for. If you see some strings are really close together while others are really far apart, that means that the manufacturer of the piano was not building the structure in a high quality way. That is going to have a big impact on the tone and the tuning and the ability for it to be tuned properly and stay in tune. It could also affect the action of the hammers and the regulation of that action.
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