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Piano tuning should take place twice per year as per the recommendations of major piano manufacturers. The reason behind this is that it doesn’t take long for a piano to slip out of tune. The stringed instrument family includes a piano too as it functions on a similar principle of tuning the stringed instruments regularly like guitar, harp, violin or others.The strings of a piano are of varying lengths and are stretched between pegs just like a rubber band stretched between two fingers. It totally depends on the length and tautness of the strings as to what tone will be produced. Again you can see this practically by stretching a rubber band between your fingers. If you stretch the band taut a higher sound is produced and to produce a lower sound just release the tension. You can learn more about this in many good Music Theory Books.The major problem faced with a piano is that the strings slip out of position as time passes. Due to gradual slippage, the strings also wear and this causes a piano to go out of tune. It may not be noticed during day to day practice. However, you will come to notice it if the piano goes out of tune for a long period of time. May be you notice it while trying to play along with another instrument and your piano strings makes a different sound and does not match with another instrument’s strings.Here comes the necessity for piano tuning. It includes adjusting the various strings in the instrument. There are several ways to accomplish this task. The older one required tuning device to locate a reference frequency and most probably this frequency was A440 and corresponded to the “A” above middle “C” as compared to nowadays where most piano tuners use some type of electronic tuner but the frequency and pitch still remains the same. It is vital for your childs Music Education that you keep the piano in tune regularly.