Nearing the holidays, so there has been a rush of tuning requests. If you wish to schedule an appointment, please call well in advance of when you wish to have your piano serviced. I am normally scheduling private clients on weekdays between 9am and 5pm. A calendar has been added to the Contact page, so if you wish to schedule an appointment, you can get an idea of what I might have available. Since there are no details showing, I might not be in your area, even if the time is open. Please try to pick a few possibilities. I am mostly booked until after Christmas at this point. Thank you.
We have a number of high quality grands available to be rebuilt. These are high quality older grands which deserve to be restored to their original splendor. I obtained them for minimal cost, and could basically sell them for the cost of restoration. The advantage of doing this is that you can pay for only the aspect of the piano you wish to have rebuilt. If you don't care about the finish, we don't have to refinish it. And you don't have to go looking for a piano to have rebuilt. Currently we have several Baldwin grands, a 5'6" Weber. a 6'3" Knabe, and an 1887 6'7" Bechstein. Please ask if you are interested.
I have created a blog to make more current comments. This website will be updated less frequently. For my thoughts and comments on pianos, please visit my The Pianoroll blog.
For those of you on Twitter, you can follow me _cincypiano Please be warned that not all posts on twitter are piano related. Many are, but not all.
The sound files which play on this website were recorded on a 1925 Mason and Hamlin RBB . It has been rebuilt by Randy Cox in Los Angeles, retaining the original soundboard. My part was to install the Wapin Bridge. The piano has been retrofit with Wayne Stahnke's Live Performance LX player system. It has an Ampico player as well. The soundfiles have been provided by the owner. There are several songs which you can listen to as you browse this site. For examples of other pianos with the Wapin Bridge, please visit the Wapin Bridge website.
New music for the Live Performance LX is available through Zenph studios. Zenph has remastered recordings for Sony. The player piano versions are available to play on the LX exclusively, and are at the Zenph website.
Thank you for visiting my website. I have been in the piano business since 1987 and work as an independent piano technician servicing the Greater Cincinnati, Ohio area. With clients from coast to coast, travel is also a part of my job when requested. I am a Registered Piano Technician in the Piano Technicians Guild, and offer piano service from basic tunings to complete rebuilding.
Some of the institutions that I work for include:
· Aronoff Center for the Arts
· Wright State University
· Northern Kentucky University
· School for the Creative and Performing Arts
· Walnut Hills High School
· The World Piano Competition
· Wilmington College
· Belterra Casino and Resort
· Grand Victoria Casino
· Matinee Musicale' Series
· Westin Hotel
· Hilton Hotel
· Interlochen Center for the Arts - summers
My rebuilding shop is located in Cincinnati. I offer a full range of rebuilding services: actions, soundboards, pinblocks, strings....whatever a piano requires. I started rebuilding pianos in 1987 at Krefting PIanos, and have been doing it continually since. I typically do all of the work myself, and only rebuild a few pianos a year. I don't try to cut costs by installing inexpensive parts, or taking shortcuts. I strive to do it right.
The hallmark of the Precision Touch Design system is to make piano actions more evenly balanced. It was developed by David Stanwood as a way of making piano actions perform at a higher level. All of the parts of an action are weighed and measured. Using weights, it is determined whether the dimensions of the action are correct. This is called the "action ratio". Any needed corrections are made. One example would be to move the location of the capstan line. The weights of the hammers and keys are then adjusted so that the action plays evenly throughout. This method is sometimes called "Component Touchweight Balancing". It is the highest standard of keybalancing available to the piano technician today. A basic PTD uses only keyleads to balance the action. Performance options use adjustable wippen springs, or magnets.
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The Wapin Bridge is a recent invention. It is a simple idea. The traditional arrangement of bridge pins on a piano provides too strong of an attachment of the string to the bridge. The front bridge pin is slanted, which slightly dampens the string. Some energy in the string is wasted as "attack noise", and the string cannot vibrate as freely as it might. Wapin Bridge changes the front, or speaking, bridge pin to a vertical position. An additional bridge pin is installed behind the vertical pin, to trap the string down to the bridge. The result is that the string is slightly decoupled from the bridge. The piano sounds better! Some describe the effect of Wapin as "opening up" the sound. There is typically greater clarity, projection, and sustain.
Many people enjoy having a player unit added to their piano. Modern player systems play with expression, are reliable, and have a wide variety of music available. I have installed both Pianodisc and QRS Pianomation. These systems can also be installed on just about any modern piano. Many pianos in the area have Baldwin Concertmaster systems. These were QRS systems with a Baldwin control head. I offer continued service and upgrades to these existing units.
The Live Performance LX is the newest system, and has the highest quality playback. It is generally intended to be put in grand pianos exclusively. The LX is quite impressive, and easily the best retrofit system on the market. Please contact me to hear an example of this fine system.
Piano tuning is the primary service performed in the home or studio. It is often described as part art and part science. I originally learned to tune pianos aurally, but have often used an electronic tuning device over the past ten years. Electronic devices are consistent, and help many tuners achieve better results than what they could otherwise. The past couple of years I have shifted back to primarily tuning using aural methods. We all get in habits and develop confidence based on practice. I have determined that I wish my habits to be based on aural methods. My method of tuning is what has been called "whole tone" tuning. It involves listening to all of the partials of a note and choosing the best fit. Most often I am trying to match pure twelfths, or an octave and a fifth. However, I can tune in many different styles, and am happy to accommodate preferences. I offer the Equal Beating Victorian Temperment as a Well Temperment.
In order to make a piano sound its best, voicing and regulation are needed in addition to tuning. In fact, many times what makes a piano sound out of tune is the voicing of the instrument. Regulation involves adjusting the action parts to make them sit in the correct position, and move at the right time. Voicing involves adjusting the hammers and strings so that the tone of the instrument is more satisfying. What works well is to schedule an entire day. In most cases, I can make considerable improvement in that time.
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email: petersrpt_gmail.com
telephone: 513-515-0973
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