Rodgers' Piano Restorations
The Best Piano Rebuilding in the Business
9091 Ox Bow Rd.   North East, PA 16428
814-725-2665 weekday afternoons from 1 pm to 9 pm EST

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Restoration of a Baldwin grand for the Ziedonis family

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25)  Bleaching the Sound board
26)  The reguilded plate
27)  Ready to drop the plate into the piano for the purpose of gluing the pin block into place.

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28)  The refinished sound board.  Note the color change has gone from near orange to blonde!
29)  The piano is ready for strings.
30)  A little out of order, another shot of the restored sound board and bridges ready to receive the plate.

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31)  The action before work began.
32)  Replacing the let off buttons.
33)  All the action rails were lined with a vinyl-type substance which was so tenacious that all the action parts were literally glued to it.  It was impossible to even regulate spacing because the parts were so stuck.  In addition, this action is slated for replacement so the original parts had to be ripped off.  After that, the vinyl was scraped off the rails and replaced with course sand paper.  This will hold the new action parts so that alignment will be kept strictly in place but will allow you to adjust the parts by loosening the screws.

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34)  In addition to new rail covering material, the action brackets were repainted and the entire thing cleaned so that it looks practically brand new.  No one will actually see this but myself and any piano tuner who is called upon to make adjustments in the future.  However, it should do the customer's heart good to know their action looks so pristine inside their piano.
35)  Leveling the freshly resurfaced keys.  The original plastic was nicely intact but needed to have minor scratches and yellowing removed.  By heavily sanding the keytops with extremely fine sand paper and then polishing them again, the keys were made much whiter and smoother with a more even gloss.  The sharps were also reconditioned for the best possible appearance.
36)  The finished piano.

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37)  Another angle.  The keytops are actually very white even though they look yellow in the photo.