The Trusted home of the world’s finest pianos since 1928
From professional tuning and careful moving to appraisals, repairs, and complete restoration, Hollywood Piano helps protect the sound, condition, value, and life of your instrument.
A piano needs different kinds of care over its lifetime. Sometimes the answer is a routine tuning. Sometimes it is a careful move, an accurate appraisal, a repair, or a thoughtful restoration plan. Our role is to help you understand what your piano needs and connect you with the right next step.
Maintain pitch, stability, tone, and touch with professional service for homes, teachers, studios, schools, and venues.
View tuning details →Move uprights and grands with experienced handling, proper preparation, and planning for stairs, access, and placement.
View moving details →Understand market value for insurance, estates, taxes, donation, resale, trade-in, schools, churches, and institutions.
View appraisal details →Evaluate anything from touch-up and repair to cabinet work, action rebuilding, restringing, and complete restoration.
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Piano design depends on string tension, and a piano naturally drifts out of tune over time. Hollywood Piano recommends regular tuning even when an instrument is not played heavily. Professional tuning restores pitch and helps keep tone and touch more consistent.
If a piano has gone years without tuning, it may first require a pitch raise before a fine tuning can be completed. Our technical team can also help identify maintenance or action issues that go beyond pitch alone.
Uprights and grands are heavy, delicate instruments with thousands of parts. Proper piano moving requires the right equipment, preparation, wrapping, handling, access planning, and placement at the destination.
Hollywood Piano has helped move instruments for private musicians, universities, venues, events, and professional settings throughout Southern California.
Piano value depends on the brand, age, model, size, condition, market demand, history, and the purpose of the appraisal. Hollywood Piano offers basic verbal appraisals as well as more complete written documentation when needed.
Written appraisal documentation can be important for insurance, tax, estate, donation, and other legal or financial situations.
A vintage or heirloom piano does not always need the same solution. Some instruments need repair or touch-up. Others justify cabinet refinishing, action work, restringing, structural attention, or a complete restoration.
Hollywood Piano can help evaluate the instrument and create a plan with options based on its musical condition, history, intended use, and the level of restoration that makes sense.
Hollywood Piano has worked with pianos since 1928 - from everyday family instruments and teaching pianos to fine grands, institutional instruments, vintage pianos, and professional-use instruments. The goal is not to sell unnecessary work. It is to understand the piano, explain the options, and help you make a practical decision.
Choose the service you are interested in and tell us a little about the piano. For moving, include pickup and delivery details and any stairs or difficult access. For appraisal or restoration, brand, age, serial number, condition, and photos are especially helpful.
Visit Hollywood Piano at 499 S. Arroyo Parkway in Pasadena or contact us to talk through your service needs.
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This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
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Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers).
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs. There may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to
