Pianos & Fortepianos

Swenson's Piano Shop offers a full range of services for modern and historic pianos, including tuning, refinishing, and high-quality restoration. Instruments restored in our workshop can be found in many museum, institutions and private homes worldwide including the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. (photo), the Nippon Cultural Center in Tokyo (photo 1, photo 2), and the Schubert Club museum in St. Paul, Minnesota. The Beethoven Center at San José State University houses a fortepiano by Mathias Jakesch (photo) rebuilt in our shop. In the summer of 2007, we completed an unusual grand piano (photo), with "harmonic swell" built in 1822 at the London factory of Muzio Clementi. The instrument is part of the collection of the Granger Homestead and Museum in Canandaigua, NY. We have just completed the restorations of a rare fortepiano by the Viennese builder Conrad Graf (photo 1) and the Neapolitan builder Giacomo Sievers (photo 1, photo 2).

We specialize in the restoration of grand pianos by Bösendorfer, Bechstein, Broadwood, Blüthner, Baldwin, Chickering, Conrad Graf, Ehrbar, Feurich, Ibach, Knabe, Pleyel, Steinway & Sons, Schweighofer, Mason & Hamlin, and Stein & Streicher. We restore, buy and sell modern and historical grand pianos, including 18th- and 19th-century Viennese fortepianos. We are happy to talk about pianos and we invite questions about sales, restoration, appraisals, conservation procedures, and long-distance moving. The prices for our work and our restored instruments are surprisingly low. Please don't hesitate to contact us if we may be of service in any way.

Edward Swenson

Piano restorer Edward Swenson graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music with a performance degree and a certificate in piano technology. After four years of study in Austria and Italy, he received a Master's degrees from the Akademie Mozarteum in Salzburg where he was awarded the Lilli Lehmann Medallion from the Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum. Completing his education in musicology at Cornell University, Swenson received a Ph.D. with a thesis on the Italian composer Antonio Salieri. Swenson is a member of the American Musical Intrument Society, American Musicological Society, The Southeastern Historical Keyboard Society, and The Piano Technicians Guild.

Please feel free to consult our bibliography

300 Years of Piano Building: A bibliography of sources including piano builders

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Jan Lodewijk Dulcken (attributed) Mozart-period Fortepiano

Fully restored in our workshop and concert ready. Offers welcome.

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