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Story & Clark Restring and Clean

We just brought in Story & Clark grand where the pins don't hold and the strings are dead. As you can see, it's pretty dirty inside as...

Fire Damage and Cleaning

This very pretty Young Chang grand piano was coated with a fine layer of soot from a kitchen fire. The repair was to remove all the...

Steinway Model O

Beginning a new project in our shop, the restoration of a 1907 Steinway model O grand piano. This piano is in fairly good playing...

Baldwin 9' Concert Grand Rebuild

Its not often we get the chance to work so extensively on a 9' concert grand, but in our shop we have a 1962 Baldwin 9' concert grand...

BALDWIN RESTORE AND DIGITAL PLAYER CONVERSION

We are restoring a Baldwin baby grand that was mahogany to a beautiful satin black. Soundboard, plate, restinging and action work. Also...

Decker and Son Player

Here is a Dexker and Son player grand piano that is being refurbished and a new digital player installed. The new QRS PNOmation III...

Steinway Model M

We are just finishing up a restring of a very nice 1935 5'8" Steinway grand piano. Forrest is 'pitch tuning' to stretch the strings. ...

Steinway 1917 Model B

A beautiful vintage Steinway 7' in our shop to get restrung, soundboard repair and plate gilding. We are ready to string and we will be...

Lichtenstein 1860 Upright

We don't often work on really old German uprights. However a customer asked us to restore this 1860 Lichtenstein that has been in their...

Story and Clark Grand

A customer brought us a little Story and Clark baby grand from the 1960s. It was pretty dirty and the strings and tuning pins were very...

Upright Player Restoration

This piano is a player piano that didn't work any longer and the piano itself was not in great shape. However it is a family heirloom...

Piano Cabinet Repairs

Not all jobs are a complete rebuild. Here's a very nice Everett piano that literally started to come apart! As you can see, the left...

Horugal 7ft Grand

We have a client piano in the shop, a Horugal 7ft piano. The client was told she should get rid of the piano as it didn't stay in tune...

1850 Square Grand

For some time now, we have been working on an 1850 "square grand" piano. Square grands were a rather short-lived design during the...

Piano Refinishing

Sometimes we have a piano that doesn't need any "piano" work, but the client would like the piano refinished. So is the case with a...

Digital Piano Conversion

We have had requests to build a digital piano or keyboard into an existing piano cabinet. Here is a fun project we completed for a...

Knabe 1924 French Queen Anne Grande

We just brought into our shop a 1924 Knabe with a beautiful Queen Anne style cabinet. The piano belongs to a client who has commissioned...

1893 Steinway A Restoration

STeinway 1893 Model A Restoration

1912 Sohmer Queen Ann

Some time back we posted this article about the restoration of a 1912 Sohmer Queen Ann baby grand piano. Well, we did not continue to...

1922 Chickering Player - Fire Damage

1924 Chickering Fire Damage Piano Rebuild

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