grand piano repair and restring

a korean YOUNG CHANG old grand piano situate in a PJ mall had a couple of broken wires, sticky keys, a damaged fall board due to being forced to open.

thank you for giving your trust on me.  action was brought back to go through repining  and we spend a few hour with my assistant after the mall operation hour to complete the job.

sluggish hammer flanges

broken wires

fallboard damage

encounter a few sluggish damper level

old broken wires

after repair and polished, the piano is now in excellent condition

old piano hammer head repair

some felts of piano hammer heads are purely glued to the head molding,
whereas some are stapled.
from time to time, due to different humidity exposed, hammer head felt may come loose.
if not noticed visibly, the affected key tone will turn mellow or even will produce no sound at all.
attaching back is one of the way to solve the problem.
by using the traditional way of fixing the loosed hammer felt, thread is a very
useful tool.  of course and a proper glue.

with proper glue and the support of thread will solve the problem.

piano key cap replacement (old piano repair)

if you find your old piano with crack and dirty white key caps

and you feel like replacing them, yes we can do it.

look at the picture above,  the white plastic key caps are cracking, chipped and the dirt

has penetrate deep into the white area, it is no use to have them clean and polish.

the solution is to replace the old one to new key caps.

we carefully extract the old key caps, clean the underneath surface

and carefully glue and clamp the new parts. 

Filing process will be applied to make the key edge smooth.

Rent a piano malaysia

If you just moved to Malaysia or temporary stay in KL Malaysia for few years and wish to rent a piano,  look for us.  upright and grand pianos are available depend on your budget. contract and agreement will be signed and some deposit will be collected.  I can try my best to carefully pick and select a good piano and sent it to your place.

for event purpose also available, please call me at 0166604478

Piano key problem

do not get surprise sometime old piano wood will go a little out of shape or twisted.
when this case happen, it will create friction, the measurement will go off and disturb adjacent keys
or wippen etc. that will cause key jammed and so on. but don't worry repair can be done to stop this by doing some wood work.

this is only one of the reason that cause the piano key jammed or stuck.

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new piano tuning pins and wires

got an old grand with many loose tuning pins
so i decided to replace all of them (with slight larger size tuning pins)
meanwhile i also replaced the wires.
look nice right?