Piano Restoration & Rebuilding

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Soundboard repair or replacement. New or restored soundboards are varnished with high-quality custom varnish and hand-rubbed. Bridge repair or recap, new bridge pins, all plate screws, bolts, and hardware cleaned or plated including the nose bolts, agraffes replaced or cleaned and polished. The plate or harp is gilded with a gold finish over the epoxy primer and finished with a clear coat finish to give the plate or harp a shiny surface. The plate or harp is then felted and lettered, a new custom pin block drilled and fitted, new custom strings, and German Klinke Neuenrade turning pins—two colors to choose from, blue & nickel, plated. Damper heads are refinished, felted, installed, and regulated to complete this process.

Keyboard and action

The keyboard is repaired, cleaned, and felted; key center & front pins are cleaned & polished or replaced with new pins; keys are cleaned, repaired, re-bushed, and recovered with new plastic; white keys and black keys are refinished or replaced with new custom tops. Backchecks recovered or replaced, and key end felts replaced, key button repaired or replaced, let off screws cleaned & polished, let off buttons replaced, action stack repaired, cleaned & polished, action bracket cleaned & refinished, action screws cleaned & polished or replaced, action parts replaced with all new genuine or custom made action parts. Including hammers, shanks, flanges, and wippens (repetitions) Regulation & Voicing professionally done to concert level completes this process.