Falcettis keep tune with times

65 years young, company adapts to challenges

By C ORI U RBAN

Special to The Republican

The Falcetti Companies — born 65 years ago — have been keeping tune with the times, expanding and diversifying as needed to adapt to market changes, recession and even pandemic.

“We’ve never been complacent, always open to exploring changes and (always) attentive to customer service at the highest levels,” said owner Tony J. Falcetti.

Falcetti Music has been sharing the joy of music with thousands of people throughout the Northeast for more than six decades; it all began as a small retail store and place to learn and play music. His father, Anselmo “Sam” Falcetti, a musician and music educator, began his Falcetti Music business in 1957 in Westfield with 12 students. He taught and sold instruments, and the business grew.

By 1963 he had three teaching locations: Westfield, Springfield, and Enfield. In 1979 the first retail store opened at the Holyoke Mall at Ingleside. Today, the Falcetti business includes Falcetti Music-Falcetti School of Music, Falcetti Piano-Northeast Piano Service and Northeast Piano Movers. The three companies and their subdivisions operate out of corporate offices in Springfield.

Falcetti Piano also has stores in Natick and in Nashua, New Hampshire, while the Falcetti School of Music is in Simsbury, Connecticut.

The Falcetti Companies have 70 full- and part-time employees.

Sam Falcetti and his wife, Peggy, instilled in their family and their employees a solid work ethic that “kept the engine running,” Tony Falcetti said. Both parents are now retired, and Sam still teaches accordion and has an accordion performing group.

The pandemic had a noticeable effect on the music industry as music venues closed and school-based instruction was put on hiatus while students engaged in remote learning.

“The industry hadn’t adapted well to taking lessons online,” Tony Falcetti said. Software and tools needed for remote music lessons were not available, and “we lost music students we are never going to get back. … I think time is going to heal that.” sic,” Falcetti said. “The music industry is resilient. … People want to play music. We need it in our souls whether it is listened to or played.”

The future of the Falcetti of growth going forward,” Falcetti said.

Falcetti Music has been sharing the joy of music with thousands of people throughout the Northeast for more than six decades; it all began as a small retail store and place to learn and play music.

Companies looks “amazingly bright,” he said, because of its smart, forward-looking staff that is fueling growth and because of an increasing online presence. “We see lots

To learn more about the Falcettis’ business, go online to falcettimusic.com, falcet tipianos.com or northeast pianomovers.com

“The essence of this company is to make sure music happens,” Tony Falcetti said. “We do more than sell instruments and provide lessons. We create pathways for people to enjoy playing, listening to and performing music.”

But, “The good news is the pandemic created a new industry,” he said, referring to online music lessons, which made learning to play an instrument easily accessible and convenient.

“I think 2023 is going to be a real growth year with people coming back to mu-