The
Piano World
Restoring the Unrestorable
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Restoring the Unrestorable |
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St. Louis Piano Manufacturing Companybuilt Pianos between1869 and 1883. This piano was dated 1879 inside. This may be the best Square Grand you’ve ever seen. You have never seen a square grand piano in this good of a condition. I have only seen a few like it and I restore them. It has been completely restored by us at Piano World. Others will say something is unrestorable because THEY don’t know how. We just do it. This
is a St. Louis Piano Manufacturing Company Square Grand piano.
It is the large size instrument built in approximately 1879.
The company went out of business in 1883.
This piano was cared for its whole life so it never was mistreated.
It has just had a $10,000 restoration performed on it and a $2,000.
Refinish job done. There are so many of these instruments that have been junked
or converted to desks that ones like this one are going up, up, up in value.
One piano sales manager said these instruments will be worth well into 6
digits in value within 10 years. I
am not sure it will happen that fast but they are now often selling in the
$50,000 neighborhood if they can be found. Most
square grands you find on Ebay or at dealers are unrestored, or
merely refurbished, or maybe even restrung, but none of them have had the
extreme restoration of this instrument.
What
we did: Keys
were bushed, original ivory repaired and polished, new keybed felt. Keys
leveled, jacks have had all new brass springs made and installed, with new cord
loops. Hammer butts all have new
felt and leather on them done in exactly the same way as the factory did.
New Hammers were made exactly like the originals.
New non-standard dampers were made.
Soundboard was shimmed with antique spruce to prevent green wood
shrinkage. Cast iron plate was
cleaned and lacquered so it still has original artwork intact.
It never got ugly and black like some pianos.
If a technician stepped out of a time machine from 1880 and opened this
piano, he would think it was brand new. This
shop is fanatical about things being clean and just like the factory did them.
The only thing that did not get cleaned was the pencil markings on two of
the keys that date tunings over 100 years ago.
Regular price $34,000.00Sale price $28,990.00Payment
may be made by cash, check, money order, cashiers check, Visa, Mastercard.
If you live within 100 miles of St. Louis we will deliver it at no charge
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