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Trim-O-Saw Trims Key Fronts
Putting the Trim-O-Saw to work trimming keyfronts
Chickering Ampico Reproducing Piano
Look what followed me home!
1915 Hamilton Baldwin Player Piano Restoration G Case
With the player complete, the final step in this project was to make repairs to the case. ...
Hamilton Player Piano Restoration: Bellows
Player Bellows Rebuild
Hamilton Player Piano Restoration: Stack
Player Stack Rebuild
A Piano Finds a Home: My Home!
Pianos get attached to you. But as a piano technician (and with certain exceptions
Hamilton Player Piano Restoration: Transmission
Player Transmission Rebuild
Hamilton Player Piano Restoration: Part one done
Quality is in all the details
Upright Piano Pinblock Inserts
Pinblock restoration in a vertical piano
Amateur Machinist: Tuning Lever Extension
Making a useful tool improvement for piano stringing with new machinist skills
Hamilton Player Piano Restoration: Keys
The keys of a piano are the user interface
A new restoration project: Hamilton Player Piano (1915)
With much enthusiasm, work has begun on the restoration of Hamilton-Baldwin #79830 (1915)
A process for dealing with fingernail gouges in key sticks
Weber Baby Grand Piano
A small grand piano, expertly reconditioned to like new condition.
Repairing the Bottom Beam of an Upright Piano
Showing some repair work to the back structure of an upright piano
Steinway Model A3 Grand Piano
A Singer Sewing Machine is not a Piano
A singer sewing machine is not a piano. But I accepted the challenge of restoring a sewing machine ...
Kawai Howard Grand Piano
I have enjoyed playing it immensely, and the piano has received rave reviews by other pianists.
Schilling & Sons: Pinblock work
As noted in the previous post, the pinblock in this piano had separated from the back posts. ...
Schillings and Sons: Completion
This piano is ready to go home again. It is performing well and looking good. Final tasks were ...
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