• If when you play your piano it has a "loose" or "sloppy" feel
• The piano has notes that stick or play slowly
• The piano has notes that feel like they continue to bounce after they hit the string or after a single key strike the hammer hits the string more than once
• Some or all the pianos notes continue to ring on, or the sound lingers on
• A major telling factor is if the piano is very difficult to play quietly
• Sometimes notes wont sound even if you are sure you have pressed them firmly
• The piano just doesn't feel or respond the way it used to when  it was new

There are approximately 27 adjustment procedures in regulating a modern upright piano, and 31 procedures to regulate a modern grand piano. We use about 20 different tools when regulating a piano! Keeping a piano well regulated will greatly enhance your piano playing pleasure and increase the instruments value and longevity.

Ideally, a piano should be regualted about once every five year, depending on how often the instrument is played.