Caring for Your Steinway - Action Regulation

• Congratulations!
• The Steinway & Sons Warranty
• General Instructions
• Care of the Piano's Interior
• Maintaining the Steinway Sound: Tuning Voicing and Regulating
• Tuning
• Voicing
• Action Regulation
• Living with Your Steinway Piano
• Storing and Moving Your Steinway Piano

The Steinway Accelerated Action® is one of your piano's patented features. It is the most sensitive and responsive action yet devised for the piano. In order to keep it as responsive as it was designed to be, it will from time to time require the attention of a professional piano technician. In normal use the action of your piano will eventually depart from the evenness which was established when it was originally regulated in our factory. The need for regulation is to a certain extent a function of the use which the piano gets.

A piano which gets normal home use will probably need regulation every 2 to 3 years. This is of course subject to individual judgment. Keep in mind that the action of a concert grand is regulated as a matter of routine before every performance.

It goes without saying that tone and action regulation are jobs for a specialist. The two are usually done at the same time. Once again we recommend that you consult your Steinway & Sons dealer for advice when you think your piano needs to be regulated.