Were pianos (player or otherwise) really that common in the Western US? Were they really always out of tune?

by BourgeoisStalker

It seems like no good western movie is complete without a saloon with an out-of-tune piano. Pianos are hard to move and had to be fairly expensive, so were they really that common? It follows that a professional piano tuner wasn't a common job in the 19th century frontier, but did pianos come with a way to be tuned by amateurs?

Searocksandtrees

Hi, not discouraging other answers, but fyi there was a related question which may provide an interesting starting point