Ron the Piano Man Tells All

Earl on the 1851 Josef Skop

JiminColorado — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 05:45:00 +0000

Elizabeth Rose on the 1842 Bosendorfer

JiminColorado — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 19:44:37 +0000

Elizabeth Rose on the 1922 Bösendorfer

JiminColorado — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:43:00 +0000

We invited Elizabeth Rose over to give us a private concert she tried out four or five pianos. Here she is on the 1922Bösendorfer.Elizabeth is a singer songwriter located in Denver Colorado.Please visit her site http://www.elizabethrose.net/

Elizabeth Rose on the 1831 Collard and Collard

JiminColorado — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:14:34 +0000

We invited Elizabeth Rose over to give us a private concert she tried out four or five pianos. Here she is on the newly restored 1831 Collard and Collard.
Elizabeth is a singer songwriter located in Denver Colorado.Please visit her site http://www.elizabethrose.net/

Chickering Square Grand

JiminColorado — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:06:14 +0000

Hello we are in the middle of restoring a Chickering Square grand that was built in 1856 It’ an exciting project and we will be posting photos of the whole project in about 10 days on Flickr.

Ron the piano doctor part 1

JiminColorado — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 18:40:47 +0000

Ron shows you what to look for when you are buying a used piano. In part 1 Ron shows you what to look for and how to inspect an upright piano. How to take off the access panels, look at the hammers, the tunning pins, the pin block and the bridges

Ron the piano doctor part2

JiminColorado — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 18:29:45 +0000

Ron shows you what to look for when you are buying a used piano. In part 2 Ron takes a look at the sound board in an upright and then a grand piano. Ron shows you what kind of cracks are acceptable and what are not. Sound boards can be repaired but you should know what you are in for before you buy that beautiful piano. We do this so you don’t buy a piece of junk

Youtube video

JiminColorado — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 04:20:46 +0000

We’ve been playing with turning photo’s into instructional videos we feel we have lessons that we would like to share with other technicians. Lessons that we usually learned the hard way. Now we have to learn the lessons of making the videos.

To that end here is Youtube video we made

More video’s to come soon We promise we have some good ones in the works so subscribe to the YouTube channel.

Bösendorfer Restoration

JiminColorado — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 00:03:30 +0000

Bösendorfer, the oldest piano manufacturer still producing its own instruments, was established in 1828 It’s noted for it’s deep rich sound. We recently finished the restoration of an 1862 grand