Klavierwerkstatt · Vienna, 6th district
Tuned by ear. Voiced by hand.
Concert technicians for your living room. We tune, regulate and voice acoustic pianos across Vienna, and restore the ones worth saving.
Upright action, mid-regulation
3,200
tunings a year
12
concert halls served
443 Hz
Vienna concert pitch
48 h
to your door
What a piano needs
Four kinds of care, one workshop.
01
Tuning
Unisons cleaned, temperament set by ear, stretched to the instrument’s own scale.
From €140
02
Regulation
Over 9,000 adjustments that decide how the keys feel: depth, let-off, repetition.
From €320
03
Voicing
Needling and shaping the hammer felt until every note has the same colour.
From €260
04
Restoration
New strings, pins, hammers and bridges for instruments worth another century.
Quoted
The Pitch Room
Hear what we hear.
Every key has an exact frequency. Play a note to see it, and switch between 432, 440 and Vienna’s 443 Hz.
A tuning visit
Two hours, minute by minute.
We book visits in two-hour slots so nothing is rushed. You’re welcome to listen, ask questions, or leave us to it.
0:00
Listen
You play, we listen. Anything that buzzes, sticks or sounds off gets noted.
0:10
Pitch check
If the piano has drifted far, we raise it in a first pass before fine tuning.
0:25
Fine tuning
Temperament octave by ear, then every unison cleaned, key by key.
1:10
Regulation check
Sticky keys, uneven touch and pedal noise fixed where it can be done on site.
1:30
Voicing touches
Bright or dull notes evened out so the scale speaks with one voice.
1:45
Play-through
A final run through the whole range, and written notes for next time.
From the stage door
“He tuned the hall piano at seven, stayed through the rehearsal, and touched up two unisons at the interval. The soloist never noticed a thing, which is the whole point.”
Stage manager · chamber music hall, Vienna
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