How does Eshelby piano rental work?
Eshelby Pianos provides great quality acoustic piano rental/hire to the areas in and around Johannesburg and Pretoria. View and choose from the pianos currently available for hire listed with photographs, descriptions and prices on our website pages.
(select from the pages listed on the right > or the links below):
intermediate
uprights, 

premier uprights

and grand pianos.

Contact Jacqueline (0823486131; jacqueline@eshelbypianos.com) for any further information required and if you do so while you are viewing the website, the merits of each piano that you are interested in can be discussed.
~There is an upfront launch fee with each piano. It covers the transport of the piano and stool to and from your residence as well as the first thirty days rental of the piano.
~The piano will arrive tuned and the tuning of the piano (when necessary) is included in the hire charges. The terms and conditions detailed in the hire agreement apply.
~The minimal hire period is six full calendar months (excluding the 30 days covered by the launch charge). 
~It is an ongoing contract and notice of one full calendar month is required to cancel the hire agreement. Notice cannot be given for the hire month of December.
~Choose which piano you want to hire and we will email you the one page piano hire agreement.
~When we receive the required documents and the launch payment, we schedule for the delivery of the piano.

What pianos are available for hire?
1. Intermediate Upright Pianos
Our intermediate range of pianos suits beginner learners up to piano grade/level 6; even at that level it may not be necessary to hire a premier piano unless the player intends on hosting a concert in their lounge. Most piano teachers would teach from pianos in this range. This range includes pianos like Challen, Kemble, Knight, Otto Bach, Rippen, Zimmerman.

2. Premier Upright Pianos
Although the Eshelby intermediate range of pianos are of a very good quality, our premier range is of a higher quality: more expensive pianos and/or more expensively polished pianos. We are very proud to be able to offer a wide variety of the best makes of pianos. These always include Steinway and Yamaha pianos and often include Bechstein, Bluthner, Bosendorfer, Grotrian, Kawai amoung other brands available for hire and/or sale.

3. Grand Pianos.
The appearance of a grand piano is stately, monumental and impressive! It is so morish, including needing enough space and having a fairly generous budget. Some uprights really have brilliant dynamic sound, but with the option of opening the piano matched with a considerably larger sound board, longer strings and overall size, a grand piano holds it own in terms of range, resonance, tonality and responsive touch.

Why would you hire a piano?   
Hiring a piano is a great option if you are indecisive about which piano to buy, it is also a way to inexpensively see if a hobby is going to be long-term. As one continues to play, they are likely to develop a preferance for the tone, touch and general feel of a piano. Each one is unique, even if it is made from the same manufacturer and is the same model. It is a great way of testing a piano before purchasing it.

Why hire a piano from Eshelby Pianos?
With our diverse variety of pianos (available for rental or purchase) displayed on our website pages with photographs, descriptions and pricing, we provide honest transparency and autonomous choice.
~We offer a high quality stock of hire pianos, most of which are also sale stock.
~The launch charge includes the transport of the piano as well as the first 30 days rental.
~There are no hidden costs like having to pay for your hire piano to be collected when you no longer require it - as this is included in the launch charge.
~The tuning of the piano (when necessary) is included in the hire charges. The terms and conditions detailed in the hire agreement apply. Tuning is really expensive.
~All of our pianos are repolished or painted when necessary.
~All pianos supplied are of an under-damper design (unless specified otherwise); come with stools and are tuned to concert pitch.
~We currently have a variety of over 425 pianos good quality Intermediate and Premier Upright and Grand Pianos hired out to areas in and around the Gauteng area - Johannesburg and Pretoria, including Krugersdorp. Eshelby Pianos is a family-run business: we service, restore and re-polish our pianos ourselves, as such - and with such a significant stock of pianos - are confident about the quality of our stock.

Can you buy your hire piano?
Most of our hire pianos are available for sale. Some are not for sale for various reasons. One reason would be because we are obsessed with pianos and are rather attached to a few special ones. Another may be because we are concerned about features of the piano being consistent in the long term, for example, some pianos are manufactured with innovative or unusual parts - like plastic parts.

Does Eshelby Pianos offer a rent-to-own option?
We can arrange for a payment plan should you wish to pay for the piano over a few months, but - as stated in our hire agreement - all monies received for the piano hire does not count in any way towards the purchase of the piano.
It is a hire agreement, not a purchase one, and the piano needs to be hired out for many years before we can even start achieving a profit.
However, because you have hired the piano and chosen to purchase it, we will offer the piano to you with a discount on the current sale price, this is at Deon’s discretion. He offers quite a substantial discount depending on the piano.

Where do we rent pianos?
Eshelby Pianos supply quality acoustic pianos for rental/hire to areas in and around greater Johannesburg and Pretoria. Our most popular areas for piano hire include Randburg, Sandton, Fourways, Bryanston, Midrand, Roodepoort, Mogale City, Lanseria, Krugersdorp, Broederstroom, Hartbeespoort, Moreleta Park, Menlyn, Irene, Faerie Glen, Midstream, Mooikloof, Hatfield, Rietfontein, Centurion… and all of the areas in between.

Piano hire details, in short:
~The upfront, launch fee covers the transport of the piano and stool to and from your residence as well as the first thirty days rental.
~The piano will arrive tuned and the tuning of the piano (when necessary) is included in the hire charges (i.e. no additional cost).
~The hire is for a minimum of six charged months (excluding the 30 days covered by the launch charge) and notice of one full calendar month is required to cancel the hire.
~Once you have chosen which piano you would like to hire, we will email you the piano hire agreement.

Eshelby Pianos has over 425 pianos out on hire in and around the Gauteng area and approximately 150 pianos currently available for sale and/or hire at our showrooms.

We service, restore and re-polish our pianos ourselves, as such are confident about the quality of our stock.

Take a look at our Pianos Under Restoration page to view and interesting range of pianos which need to be re-polished, painted or restored.