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Swenson's Piano Shop offers high-quality restoration of modern and historic pianos and fortepianos. Instruments restored in our workshop can be found in many places 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 is the home of a Jakesch fortepiano (photo) rebuilt in our shop. A John Osborne (c. 1792-1835) square grand piano restored in our shop can be found at the Hyde Hall Historic Site near Cooperstown, NY. In the summer of 2007, we completed for the Granger Homestead and Museum in Canandaigua, NY an usual grand piano, built in 1822 by Muzio Clementi.
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. Featured For SaleJan Lodewijk Dulcken (attributed) 18th-Century Fortepiano
For the first time in more than thirty years we can offer a rare Mozart-period fortepiano. This
instrument is characteristic of the instruments from the workshop of Jan Lodewijk Dulcken. Length
220 cm, width: 102 cm; corpus height: 30 cm, keyboard range: EE-g’’’; Case:
cherry veneer, paneled lid, four square, tapered legs. The music desk extends across the entire
width of the instrument, 2 knee levers lift the dampers, double-strung through eb’’,
triple strung from e’’ to g’’’, one wooden gap spacer. Action:
Viennese or South German Prellmechanik with wooden kapsels. Signatures: on the damper rack: “
No. 1870”; on the treble side of key # 1: “Rep.[aratur] 24.III.14 B.[?] Zöllner."
Most of the original wire sizes are still marked on the pin block. A curious
geometric design
on the pinblock may be a reference to the builder's name, the string scaling or the tuning temperament.
Fully restored in our workshop and concert ready. $95,000 or make an offer. Work in Progress and Recent Updates
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English
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.