Tag Archives: piano repair

February 13, 2018

Why age matters…

“It’s an antique”, is a phrase I hear often. The term antique should not be applied to a piano. Think of a piano less in terms of a piece of furniture, and more in terms of a car. A piano may LOOK like a piece of furniture, and in some ways it is i.e. picture […]

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January 17, 2018

It’s probably a pencil (and how to get it out).

Things fall inside pianos. Objects I’ve found while tuning: pencils, paperclips, a harmonica, coins, rolled dollar bills (yeah, I know), CDs, pieces of paper, markers, dolls, legos, toy blocks, erasers, sheet music, envelopes, crayons, a hair comb, hair clips…. I could keep going, but we would be here all day. The point is that things […]

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