Technology & Maintenance
Ron Koval’s Tech Videos on YouTube
- Relocating treble hammers for tone
- Voicing technique for the high-use piano
- Muting 1
- Muting 2
- Fine tuning
- Pitch raise fundamentals
- String leveling
- Stabilising new strings
- Muteless pitch-raise with TuneLab
- Replacing a treble string
- Wire splicing
- Fibre cover
- Voicing 1
- Voicing 2
- Pitch-raise (1/6)
- Pitch-raise (2/6)
- Pitch-raise (3/6)
- Pitch-raise (4/6)
- Pitch-raise (5/6)
- Pitch-raise (6/6
- Verituner profiling for a piano
- Key striker for tuning
Interesting Piano Manufacturers
- Borgato
- Fandrich & Sons
- Overs Pianos
- Sauter
- Spreeman Piano Innovations (Ravenscroft pianos)
- Stuart & Sons
Parts & Tools
- Abel hammers
- Bubinga fact sheet
- Ciresa Fiemme soundboards
- Fourier Systems MicroLogPLUS
- Fujan Products
- Furniture Polishes – The problem with them
- Kluge keys
- KS Piano online shop
- Magiglide furniture glides
- Mothergoose Tools
- PianoDisc
- Renner actions
- Spurlock Specialty Tools
After-Market Modifications & Tweaks
Books
- Arthur Reblitz – Piano Servicing, Tuning, and Rebuilding (2ed)
- Del Fandrich (ed) – Piano Tone Building
- Larry Fine – The Piano Book: Buying & Owning a New or Used Piano
Uncategorised
- Brian Capleton’s Piano Page
- Del Fandrich – Expectations & Realities of Rebuilding
- Del Fandrich – Soundboard Technology & Manufacture
- Five lectures on the acoustics of the piano
- Joe Swenson – New Piano Preparation
- Klavier-Roller piano transporter
- Magnetic Balanced Action
- Piano Technology Course, U of Western Ontario
- PTG – Piano finish care
- PTG – Technical Bulletin #2: Regulation
- PTG – Technical Bulletin #4: Voicing
- PW – Basic grand piano prep
- PW – How to avoid tipping a grand piano on its lyre
- PW – L-modes in strings
- PW – Lubricants for pianos
- Renner USA – Voicing the Renner Hammer
- Renner USA – Tuning Lever Design & Maintenance
- Touchweight: or, “Why is my piano so hard to play?”
- General Piano information [Wikipedia]
- How to Calibrate a Hygrometer
