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Meticulous Piano Restoration in Colorado  Ah, piano restoration! The romance of bringing an old, tired, worn out, vintage piano back to brand-new condition! Your piano has around 11,000 intricate and complicated parts. As the decades pass and time takes its toll, parts wear out and the piano is no longer enjoyable to play. Often, an instrument becomes simply unplayable. I delight in patiently and carefully restoring vintage pianos of all makes and ages to new or better-than-new condition. *After you've browsed this page, visit the Customer Comments page to read what customers say!* Sadly, there are many piano shops out there that just throw new parts in pianos, without the understanding needed to really make those new parts function well, and the result is a lot of money spent, and a piano that plays worse than before! When the work is done by a skilled, meticulous and educated piano craftsman, however, the results are extremely gratifying, adding decades of music-making ability to the instrument, and significantly increasing the piano's value. To schedule a free estimate and appraisal of your piano to determine it's potential for restoration, please contact me.
Read on below the slide show to learn more about our beautiful piano restorations.
Piano Restoration Slide Show
| Piano Restoration Process
There are few things more satisfying than taking an old, worn out piano and bringing it back to vibrant life as a beautiful piece of furniture and an inspiring musical instrument! In a full restoration, your piano is completely disassembled, repaired, and then put back together with the utmost care, repairing or replacing parts where necessary.
The goal is that your piano will look and sound the way it did when it first came out of the factory - or better!
The soundboard and bridges are either repaired or replaced, then refinished with beautiful clear lacquer. The pinblock is repaired or replaced. The gold harp is cleaned and refinished in rich gold lacquer, matching the original color. All the hardware (screws, hinges, pedals, etc.) is removed, cleaned and re-plated. Then the 230 bright new strings and tuning pins are installed.
Meanwhile, the outside body of your piano is being refinished to restore the original rich depth of sheen and beauty to the grain.
Next, the various moving parts in the piano, called the "action", are restored or replaced as is necessary to insure the best tone and touch possible. The action is then adjusted in a three-day process called "regulating", to make the touch as smooth and responsive as possible. Finally, the hammers and strings are adjusted, in a process called "voicing", to make the tone as rich and full, singing and lyrical as possible. The result: your piano looks as good, sounds as good and feels as good under the fingers as the day it was made! And, instead of being destined to sit forlornly in a corner of the room because it's unplayable, it will now bring decades of musical joy to those who are fortunate enough to play it! The results of a careful piano restoration are tremendously gratifying, which is why so many piano owners prefer to restore their vintage or heirloom piano rather than replace it with a new piano that has little character of family history.
To find out more about restoring your piano, to schedule an estimate or to commission your piano for restoration, contact us via email, or call 303-641-8863.
Piano restoration in Boulder and Denver, CO, for vintage Steinway, Mason & Hamlin, Bosendorfer, Bechstein and other fine brands. We can also have your piano shipped here from anywhere in the country or the world.
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