This 5’8″ Mason & Hamlin grand piano was manufactured in 1931 in Boston, MA and has recently been rebuilt & refinished. The piano has a new tuning pin block, strings, hammers, and was recently refinished. We are asking $15,000 which includes delivery, matching bench, 10 year warranty, and one in-home tuning.

This 1923  5’8″ Knabe grand is almost finished being rebuilt. We have manufactured and installed a new tuning pinblock and treble bridge, repaired the original sounding board, replaced the hammers, shanks & keytops, and are currently regulating the action. The piano has been refinished in a beautiful mahogany color.      

This 1908 Steinway grand  model “O” is being completely rebuilt. We manufactured and installed a new tuning pin block, aligned (traveled) the hammer shanks and reshaped the hammers. The action is currently undergoing full regulation.      

This 1905 Steinway grand piano model “O” is being completely rebuilt and refinished. We have manufactured and installed a new sounding board & tuning pin block with all new shanks, hammers and keytops. The action will be completely regulated to feel  as if it were  new.    

This 1923 Steinway grand piano model “A” is undergoing complete rebuilding (with no refinishing). We have replaced the tuning pinblock but were able to keep the original sounding board. On the action we installed a set of new keytops, Steinway hammers / whippens / shanks, and will be completely regulating the piano. If you like [...]

Rebuilt Knabe grand piano

New York Times – June 2001

In the piano-rebuilding business, most of the work is done by specialists. Belly experts fix cracks in the soundboard and repair the pinblock, which holds the tuning pegs of the piano. Refinishers are the trade’s cosmetic surgeons. Action masters ensure that each key lines up straight and that the hammers hit the strings at the proper angle with the right amount of force. Tuners add the final touch, turning discord into harmony [...]

Westchester Business Journal – April 2001

John Fekete, who emigrated to the United States from Hungary in the 1890s, opened Fekete Pianos about 1912 or 1913 in Manhattan. Fekete ran the shop until his death in 1957, passing on the business to his son, John, who changed his family name to Ford and the name of the business to Ford Piano Co. He died in 1999 and his son, John Jr., who was “pretty much born in the piano shop,” continued the business in 1985 to keep alive the family tradition [...]

The Journal News – September 2003

The company’s ebullient owner, John Ford, is the third generation to run this piano repair and sales shop, which his Hungarian immigrant grandfather founded during the height of the late 19th-century piano boom [...]

Fischer was established in 1840 by two brothers, John and Charles Fischer in New York City. Fischer was formally R. & W. Nunns & Clark and then Nunns & Fischer around 1839. In 1896 the J.C. Fischer Co. celebrated the making of their 100,000th piano. They produced about 5,000 pianos annualy around the turn of [...]