I tuned for a fascinating gentleman named John Zanni. He is 91 years old and his father, also named John Zanni, worked in Ivoryton, Connecticut for a company called Comstock, Cheney & Co, which merged with Pratt Read & Co in December of 1936. He worked on action parts and keys…for 50 years!! John, the son (91)…
When I’m in there trouble shooting sticking keys or clicking noises sometimes it’s just as advantageous to take everything out (action and keys) to get it all clean. Plus it leaves me feeling on good inside! That’s never a bad thing, right? 🙂
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One of the things I love about my job is that I never know what each repair will bring. Recently, I was scheduled to tune a 1971 Yamaha G2 baby grand piano at one of our outstanding local educational institutions (Brigham Young University Dept of Dance). Of course, the first thing I typically do is open…
I had the privilege of attending the Steinway & Sons “Regulation and Touch Seminar” at the Steinway Factory in Queens, New York City from Monday April 27th through Friday May 1st, 2015. What a neat experience! I was there along with 3 other technicians, one from Virginia, another from Oregon, and a third from Mexico.…
Can you guess what part of the piano this is (without scrolling down to the pictures below!)? Crazy enough, it’s the inside of the top lid of a 1919 Marshall & Wendell Upright Player piano! Now you’ll be able to see for sure where that’s at: I just think that old crackling finish is so…
Here is the result of close to a year of work between the inside work, the outside work, and coordinating the move around snowfall! 🙂 Elizabeth’s first comment was, “That was money well spent!” 🙂
The finish line is in sight (pun intended!!) As you can see in the pictures below the piano has been stripped, repairs have been made (see old piano with water damaged top HERE). The FINISH is soon to be applied – I am excited to bring this to completion over the next month or so! Below you’ll…
It’s really amazing the kind of build-up that happens over a period of decades. Then once I fluffed it up (so that I could gather up the big dust by hand) it looked like this: After vacuuming it out, the piano finally looked like this: What a difference a little cleaning can make!