The
Piano World
Restoring the Unrestorable
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Restoring the Unrestorable |
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Square Grand Pianosare a specialty of Piano World. We restore them to last. We restore them completely. We make all new springs for them. We do vellum actions. We replace all the hammer butts in Square Grand restorations because we had them specially made out of hard rock maple. These parts are available for serious restoration experts who need them. Square Grands are not a do it yourself item. The
historic square grand is not a modern piano, and will never be a modern piano.
It is a step between the fortepiano of Mozart’s day and our modern
concert grand.
Square
Grands, today, have a bad rap.
This is wrong-headed and shows ignorance on the part of the technician
who says any of the following things:
“They never were much of a piano,”
“They won’t stay in tune,”
“You can’t restore them,” Square
grands, first, are well over 100 years old, with most of them over 120 years of
age. Restored
ones are almost non-existent.
How many neglected pianos do you know that are this old that still
work well? Completely
restored, however, a square grand is great for playing music of the era in
which it was built.
Hugo Wolf art songs sound great on it.
Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, even early Scott Joplin and anything written
in the 19th century do very well on a square grand.
The
square grand has a huge bass with a string length similar to a 7-1/2 foot modern
grand. It
also has a lovely tinkly Mozart treble, with the middle range sounding very like
a modern piano. When Piano World restores a square grand, expect to pay $10,000.00 or more and expect it to take over a year, possibly two. At this time we are not taking any more square grands to restore until we get several done that are now underway. Here are the pages that show and tell about square grand pianos. St. Louis Piano Manufacturing Company. This piano is for sale. These are the parts we have made for most square grands. |
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If you think a good technician is expensive, just try a bad one.
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