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The decision of which piano to buy for you can be difficult. But buying a piano as a gift for a loved one or friend can be even mores daunting. This is especially true if the recipient is an advanced player who might have very specific preferences in an instrument. Here at Northwest Pianos we are very sensitive to these issues and have strategies to help our customers navigate them.
When you visit us just let us know if you are buying for someone else. We have a list of questions that will help us to recommend a piano that you can be confident your recipient will love. We can also help with arranging delivery if you want the piano to be a surprise. We can even arrange for the piano to arrive with a big red bow on it.
According to the Piano Technicians Guild (PTG), seasonal and even daily changes in humidity make a piano's wood parts swell and shrink. That affects tuning stability and how the keys feel.
In July 2026, Stanford reported on a study led by concert pianist Elizabeth Schumann, the Billie Bennett Director of Keyboard Programs at Stanford, with support from the Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance.
Bonn — the city where Beethoven was born in 1770 — just wrapped up its month-long Beethovenfest, which ran from September 3 to October 3, 2026.
It was a homecoming in more ways than one. The festival's main venue, the Beethovenhalle, reopened in December 2025 after being closed for almost ten years of renovation. This September it was back at the center of the festival, with the London Symphony Orchestra opening the program.