Services
Our vision is to offer New Zealanders dynamic, personalized and Swiss excellence in all the services related to acoustic pianos. Every customer deserves the best.
Our fully equipped workshop enables us to welcome any type and make of piano and carry out repairs and restorations within the best possible time limit.
It will be a pleasure to travel to you to look after your instrument. Do not hesitate to contact us with any enquiries or to make a booking.
Tuning
We offer excellent quality and solid tunings to suit any expectations. A tuning in the Wellington area costs $130.00.
Tuning is the essential key to a better sound and a long life span for your instrument.
We highly recommend planning at least one tuning a year. However to maintain your piano at its peak and considering the change of seasons, it is more advisable to tune it twice a year.
Voicing(toning) and regulation
Optimum voicing(toning) and regulation require rarely found skills in New Zealand. We offer you this unique and personalized service to match your tastes and likings to the tone and the touch of your instrument.
Repair and restoration
We provide restorations of excellent quality and precision. They are accomplished to the original industrial standards and characteristics of each piano manufacturer, while always respecting your perspective as a musician.
Our workshop is at the core of our activities. This is where all our technical savoir-faire comes into play, and high-level traditional handcraft blends with modern resources to offer you matchless results.
Concert and recording services
Are you looking for a reliable, highly skilled and experienced tuner for your concerts and/or recordings? We are here to make sure that your requirements are met.
Our solid concert tunings also include, if needed, the preparation and on-going maintenance of your instrument to always ensure the satisfaction of your clients.
Evaluations
Getting your piano evaluated will enable you to have an accurate New Zealand market value of your piano. A professional reference is recommended if you want to sell, trade or insure your instrument. We are happy to be of service in this area.
Independent advice
Playing a piano is not always sufficient when selecting an instrument. Hidden defects could alter your enjoyment of the chosen instrument at a later stage. Do not hesitate to ask us for objective advice regarding any piano you want to buy or hire. Serge Grandchamp is also available to assist you by collaborating with different dealers in the country.
Harpsichord tuning, servicing and restoration
Serge Grandchamp offers you the unique opportunity in New Zealand to restore and service your Harpsichord at a level equal to the task.
"Just a note to record how delighted I am by the way in which you restored my piano and tuned it. It is a delight to once again listen to it in tune and to know that it has been brought back to the performance it must of had when it was new. I feel the money spent to get the job done was very well spent and I thank you for your professionalism. "
- A happy customer -
"Thanks for doing such a great job on the piano!"
- Richie Singleton -
"We have been most impressed with your work on the Grotrian in Waikanae."
- Basil Pritchett -
"We have had some lovely sounds from this piano since Serge took over the tuning."
- Ralph Pyatt -
"Thanks Serge, I just tried the Steinway, and it is so much better!"
- Richard Mapp, Senior Lecturer and Head of Piano Studies, NZ School of Music -
"Please pass on my thanks to Serge for his careful work on my piano, and the chocolate he left on the keyboard cover... tres Suisse!"
- Catherine Martin - Piano teacher -
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- website -
"Thank you very much, Serge. Sounds fantastic now. Makes me want to play it more!"
- Peter Rickard -
"My students and I found your explanation and demonstration of how the piano works very enlightening."
- Rosemary Bromley, Piano teacher -
"Just wanted to say the piano is SWEET! First time the piano has been tuned properly in NZ. Thank you so much!"
- Joan Whincup -
"I have played concert instruments in venues in the city that Serge has tuned, as well as on pianos that he has rebuilt, and again I am happy to endorse the quality of his work."
- Richard Mapp, Senior Lecturer and Head of Piano Studies, NZ School of Music -
"Thank you... The Schimmel sounded fantastic in concert."
- Ivan Patterson, Head of Music Department, Wairarapa College, Masterton -
"I'm very happy with how the piano is sounding."
- Emma Sayers, Classical performance, NZ School of Music -
"Un grand merci pour votre excellent travail aujourd'hui."
- Florence Cunningham -
"The quality of Serge's tunings and other work is very high, and he always executes the work very professionally, promptly and in a well organized way."
- Richard Mapp, Senior Lecturer and Head of Piano Studies, NZ School of Music -
"Needless to say, we are grateful to have known Serge for his valuable input thus making our decision making more informed. Best of all, we have saved thousands of dollars for his input. Very impressed! "
- Theresa Fernandez -
"Our piano sounds just great now!!! "
- Andrea Buxton -
"The only drawback with the piano sounding so great is that I'm getting sleep deprived. I just can't stop playing it and could carry on into the wee small hours."
- Marilyn Petrie - Piano teacher -
"The piano sounds absolutely fabulous and I'm really enjoying playing it!"
- Marilyn Petrie - Piano teacher -