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Quick Reference Guide for Piano Owners and Prospects

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I was recently reviewing some of the posts I had written over the past several months and realized that if I could organize them into a reference guide they might be of more use to you, so that is what [...]

Making a Kawai Grand Piano

Continuing my research on the “old families” of the piano business I came across these videos about the Kawai brand.  Kawai, while not an American brand, has had a major impact on the American market. Kudos to Worldpiano for posting these videos.
Making Of A Kawai Grand Piano Pt.1

Koichi Kawai founded a company in 1927 [...]

Memories of an Old Friend

Memories of An Old Friend
A few days ago I was going through some old photos of pianos that I had purchased for resale during the first years of my career as a piano technician (a great way for a young technician to build up both experience and working capital) when I stumbled across a picture [...]