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In fact, as a child I remember my dad working with Mr. That had occurred with this piano many years ago. These pianos have a propensity for the pinblock to separate from the back posts. I began work by destringing the piano, and securing the pinblock. Here’s more what it will sound like! Thanks for the lessons, Mom.) (Perhaps I could have improved it with tuning? Maybe not after 8 years in dry Utah.) New hammers from Ronsen Piano Hammer Company.Restringing including new Mapes bass strings.The work I have outlined for the pianos is this: It is thus that procrastination has ended and the piano rebuild has begun. As it worked out, procrastination and the lack of a plan for that piano meant that it has just been waiting on me these past eight or nine years.īut then, in 2019, the very house we knew as home in Raymond came on the market, and Carol surprised us all by buying it as a family vacation home! It was then obvious what the next stopping point for the Schilling and Sons piano would be! I anticipate returning the piano to its home in Raymond this Spring. I made the surprise piano delivery, from Utah to Washington, while Carol was on the East Coast for a week. Then I spirited the Schilling and Sons off to Utah to be rebuilt. In 2011, with gratitude (and a bit of showmanship), I gave Carol a modern baby grand piano for her birthday. Carol selflessly provided near daily care and support during Mom’s time there. In 2008, at the age of 91, Mom left the Raymond home to live in a senior apartment near Carol’s home in Vancouver. Carol’s three girls: Angela, Heather, and Tiffany all learned to play on this piano too.

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So she bought a spinet piano, and as part of the purchase, she arranged free delivery of the Schilling and Sons from Raymond to Carol’s new home in Vancouver, Washington. Then in 1972, Mom thought she should have a smaller piano for her dining room. My sister Carol, my sister Nadine, and I all learned to play on the Schilling and Sons. My mother acquired the piano sometime in the 1940s.

The Shilling and Sons piano was a product of the Lester Piano Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was on this piano: Schilling and Sons #93032! Schilling and Sons Upright Piano made in 1926 Sometime around 1959, in Raymond Washington, I had my first piano lesson.