Gallery

Gallery

An unusual grand piano built in 1822 by Muzio Clementi now located at the Granger Homestead and Museum in Canandaigua, NY.	Professor George Damp performing on the Lawrence University Broadwood.
The complete duplex system of the Ithaca Piano. The strings resonate in sympathy with the strings struck by the hammers in the front.	An anonymous square piano with Viennese action, restored for a private customer.
Early Viennese tools.	An original machine for installing brass capsules.
Fortepiano by Mathias Jakesch restored for the Beethoven Center at San José State University	An anonymous square grand piano, 1820.
Rudolf Serkin playing the Graf piano at the Schubert Club in St. Paul. Our first Graf restoration.	The restored action of the Ithaca Piano.
The Viennese action of Nannette Stein Streicher, circa 1800.	A Beethoven-period pianoforte by John Broadwood, restored for Lawrence University.
Graf's Nameplate	A special machine for drilling and pinning Viennese hammershanks
Our moving van.	Collard & Collard piano restored with all original parts.
The Graf restored in our shop now on stage at the Smithsonian Institution.	A rare Johann Baptist Streicher fortepiano with English action.
Another view of the 1843 Streicher restored in our shop.	A early Bösendorfer fortepiano, restored for Cornell University.
The Smithsonian Graf on stage for a concert at New York's Town Hall	Edward Swenson at work on a Viennese fortepiano by Conrad Graf
Collard & Collard before restoration.	Pianist Robert Levin performing the inaugural concert on the Nippon Cultural Center Graf.
The Viennese action
PIanists Paul Badura-Skoda and Malcolm Bilson at Swenson's Piano Shop	Graf piano in our workshop before leaving for Tokyo.
An anonymous 18th-century fortepiano restored in 2006	Stefania Neonato, Great Great Great Grandchildren of pianomaker Muzio Clementi, and Edward Swenson
The Ithaca Piano ready for return to a museum in Ithaca.	Another view of the anonymous Viennese or South German fortepiano. Now concert ready.
The ruined action of a Wefgman, Henning & Co. upright piano manufactured in Ithaca, NY	A special, original tool for triming the beak leather of the Viennese action.
Removing the shattered Broadwood belly rail.	A beautiful Graf piano for pianist Penelope Crawford.
A Chopin-period pianoforte by John Broadwood, London	Another restored Bösendorfer from the mid-19th century.
The Ithaca piano action covered with bird droppings.	Conrad Graf (1782-1851) Kaiserl. kön. Hof-Fortepianomacher Wien posing in his workshop. Painted b y Joseph Dannhauyse in 1840

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