in Portland knows the sentimental value that comes with a family piano. But restoring pianos, especially creaky old ones, can be a laborious process. And unfortunately, the cost to repair them is ...

For vintage pianos, customers from all over the world turn to a business in Friendsville. The Antique Piano Shop restores pianos built before the Great Depression in 1929. Many are much older than ...

Kenneth Rexrode’s mother is a pianist, but he never had any real interest in playing an instrument. After being strongly nudged to try the piano and trombone when he was younger, he was finally “set ...

Restoring a creaky old piano can be a laborious, costly process, one that all too often outweighs what even the most sentimental can justify. Those old uprights, built by hand some 60 to 100 years ago ...

Matt Sellers’ shop is in an old brick factory off South Broadway, hidden at the bottom of a steep, spiraling road cut into a bluff. You drive down until you’re almost at river level. Then you walk in ...

Her body’s in fine shape and she sounds pretty good, too, considering her age. She played Beethoven’s “Für Elise,” a Joplin rag, and an improvised blues riff cleanly and effortlessly. There’s little ...

BOSTON, Sept. 14 (UPI) -- Many people are trying to unload old pianos in Boston, once the home to as many as 26 piano companies, the Boston Globe reported. Joe Curry, 21, posted an ad on ...