Gallery

Gallery

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

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