Shop Work

A nice reconditioning job gets a great response.

The top section of the treble bridge had many cracks which were causing poor tonality

Reconditioning work on a 1920s Baldwin Grand piano

Woodworking skills -- Creating a new lid for a grand piano

planning for the rebuild of Stieff Grand Piano no. 28334

A singer sewing machine is not a piano. But I accepted the challenge of restoring a sewing machine ...

The photos which follow show new hammers installed in the action and regulation in progress.

An Adam Schaaf player piano recently arrived in my shop for a complete rebuild.   I'll be doing ...

After completing work on the bottom board and keyframe, I'm preparing the piano for restringing.

Work is now complete on the key set and key frame of the 1916 Chickering Quarter Grand. This work ...

The casters on a grand piano are purely decorative! Attempting to move a grand piano by rolling on ...

Sometime around 1959, in Raymond Washington, I had my first piano lesson. It was on this piano: ...

The legs of a console or spinet piano are a very weak structure. Proper moving procedures require ...

This bottom board split, causing malfunction of the pedals.

I can fix that!

Showing some repair work to the back structure of an upright piano

Replacing a broken pedal board

Photos showing installation of dampers and hammers

This piano is ready to go home again.  It is performing well and looking good.  Final tasks were ...

Amateur movers frequently damage the lower corner of upright pianos.  Shown here is my approach to ...

As noted in the previous post, the pinblock in this piano had separated from the back posts.  ...

Quality is a collection of small details.  And for every piano, the first thing the pianist ...

An update on the Rebuild of Stieff 28334 has been a long time in coming.   I've been disappointed ...

The soundboard was tapered (diaphramized in Steinway terminology).   First contour lines were ...

Week 15? Yes. I made no progress on the project for the past 10 weeks. Oh my. Interruptions were a ...

The piano was prepared for its trip to the refinishing shop. It's there now. I anticipate its ...

I am grateful for my customers, and they are taking my time! The Stieff Rebuild is not moving ...

I expect to have more time for the rebuild in November, after I finish the rebuild of a fine, old ...

New WNG parts for the action were ordered two years ago. The three photos in the sequence here ...

I completed some more work related to the key frame, and the mind is spinning with plans for the ...