Piano Restoring

or tonal problem areas (for example, weaker tone and sustain in octaves 5 & 6) and to re-engineer average, mediocre, or poorly designed and executed actions, elevating them to a very high level of precision performance.

 Our aim is the creation of our own artistic concept of a piano's "tonal envelope," with action nuances and responses perceptibly superior to the average factory piano. To create a piano that inspires players to say "Wow--this is something wonderful and different.I love this instrument." is our passion and guiding principle.

 I am driven by my own strong memories of listening to classic piano performances by great pianists when I was very young. I still love to listen to those performances, captured from the '30's through the mid-'60's.the foundation of my tonal memory: Horowitz, Rubenstein, Gould, Rachmaninoff, Hoffmann, Gieseking, Bill Evans, Count Basie, Errol Gamer, so many others. The pianos, even on some older recordings, sound powerful and singing, brilliant without being clangy or metallic. This idealized Holy Grail of piano tone, a product of some of my earliest memories of listening to pianos, is what we're constantly striving for with most essential piano systems & designs being 100-plus years old, its important to understand that the piano can be and is being improved. If you take the time to go step by step with us through a custom restoration as it's done in our workshops, it will become crystal clear to you why a custom-restored, value added piano is so much more precise, more musical, more intentional, more labor-and-skill-intensive, more fulfilling than even most hand-built factory pianos, let alone a commercial restoration. These pianos are for the artist, the enlightened venue or recording studio, the serious player, the aficionado. You'll understand why custom restoration is expensive, and why buying or owning a custom-restored piano is a rare opportunity.  

Renovating A Piano

 

 

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