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Piano Guides For Malaysian Owners Buying, moving and caring for a piano in Kuala Lumpur and Selangor.

Everything here comes out of questions customers actually ask us on WhatsApp, usually more than once. There is no schedule and nothing is written to fill a page. When something comes up often enough that we are typing the same answer for the fourth time, it ends up here.

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How To Choose, Move And Care For A Piano

Which Upright Piano Height Actually Fits Your Room

Which Upright Piano Height Actually Fits Your Room

Height is the first number on every upright and the one people pay least attention to. It decides the tone, the moving weight and, more often than anyone expects, whether the instrument gets into the room at all.

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Yamaha Or Kawai: Choosing Between Two Used Japanese Uprights

Yamaha Or Kawai: Choosing Between Two Used Japanese Uprights

There is no wrong answer here, which is exactly why the question is so hard to settle online. The two brands built genuinely different instruments, and the difference matters more to some players than to others.

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Keeping A Piano Healthy In Malaysian Humidity

Keeping A Piano Healthy In Malaysian Humidity

A piano is several hundred pieces of wood under about twenty tonnes of string tension, sitting in a country that runs at 70 to 90 percent relative humidity all year. Almost every complaint we hear traces back to that one fact.

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Beyond the guides

The Pages These Guides Keep Pointing At

Most of what gets asked here ends up on one of these pages, where the models, the specifications and what the work involves are set out properly.

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If you have a piano question we have not written about, send it over. Most of what is on this page started as somebody's WhatsApp message.

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