A real piano with real strings and real hammers, not a keyboard. Ten pounds a week. No minimum contract, so if the lessons do not stick you send it back.
Billed £40 every four weeks. Prices include VAT.
They are practising on a keyboard, or on nothing. A real piano has weighted keys and a proper sustain pedal, and any teacher will tell you that changes how quickly a child gets on.
The catch has always been that buying one is a six hundred pound bet on whether the lessons stick. At ten pounds a week it is not a bet.
Often someone who has just retired and finally has the mornings free. It is one of the most common things people say they will get round to, and then do not.
Nobody wants to spend nine hundred pounds finding out whether they enjoy it. Rent one, have it tuned, see how you get on. If you would rather take up something else, send it back.
The whole offer
A small or compact upright, by which we mean 1960s onwards rather than a Victorian one. Full size keyboard, 88 keys, two or three pedals, in tune and ready to practise on. Welmar, Fazer, Bentley and Zender are good examples of what turns up.
These are pre-loved pianos. They are not new and they do not pretend to be, but they are playable, they are tuneable, and they are suitable for a beginner and well beyond. Every one is checked over before it goes out, and anything that will not hold its tuning does not become a rental piano.
Correct. You give four weeks notice whenever you like and the rental ends at the end of your next four week billing period. In practice that means about eight weeks is the least anyone pays, because you have already paid for the period you are in.
Talk to us. We would rather sell you the piano than drive out and collect it, so there is usually a sensible number to be had.
We cover the tune 2 to 6 weeks after delivery and one tune every year after that. If you want it done more often than that, it is £79 and we will arrange it.
Not a problem. Pick your floor on the booking form and it prices itself at £99 a floor, which covers carrying it up now and back down at the end. These are modern uprights rather than pre-war ones, so they are lighter and narrower and stairs are genuinely fine.
Tell us in the notes if the stairwell is unusually tight or has a spiral or a sharp turn at a landing, and we will come back to you before the day rather than on it.
Probably usable, and more often than people expect. An upright travels safely stood on its end, so the width of the lift matters much less than you would think. What it needs is roughly 1.2 metres of depth, measured from the back wall to the doors.
If your lift has that, there is no stair charge at all, whatever floor you are on. The booking form asks. If you are not sure, measure it or send us a photo and we will tell you.
Normal wear is ours to deal with. Anything beyond that is yours, and most home contents policies will cover a rented piano if you tell them it is there. No deposit either way.
No. You get a checked, tuned, playable beginner upright from stock. That is how the price stays at £10 a week.
Because moving a piano is the expensive part and we do it twice, once out to you and once back. The £159 covers both trips plus the tuner. The weekly price is low because we already own the pianos outright, so there is no instrument to pay off.