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| Previous work carried out on behalf of the following:
Alfred Beck Theatre |
Renovation Projects
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Top left: work commences on an ancient wood framed Collard & Collard. Above: David had to hand-make the brass jack springs for this job! Left: New hammer shanks replaced the old brittle cedar wood ones, and a custom made set of tiny new hammers were made by Abel specifically for this renovation. |
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A bit of interesting history to this ‘Goetze’ Grand, which came in for a full re-build including a new tuning plank. It had once belonged to the English music hall performer Vesta Victoria, famed for such songs as ‘Daddy Wouldn’t Buy Me a Bow Wow’, ‘Waiting at the Church’ and ‘Poor John’. It was evident that the piano had been moved many times in its previous years, presumably from one theatre to another. |
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Top Left: Punching the pin locations for drilling the new plank through the dirty brass cover plates on the Goetze grand. Above: Holes all drilled, plates polished and fixed to the new plank, ready to be fixed back onto the re-gilded frame. Left: The finished ‘Vesta Victoria’ piano...hope she would have been as pleased with the result as the client who now owns it! |
Other Pictures
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Full recondition of a Blüthner upright piano, including hammers, wrestplank and re-stringing. |
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Turning down a new beech column for a broken grand pedal lyre. |
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A special compound is used in conjunction with a high speed buffing wheel to polish piano ivories. Sometimes an ivory keyboard has too many damaged ivories to ‘patch’, so the only recourse is to re-cover the keyboard in plastic. |
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Completed 7ft ‘John Broadwood’. |
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