After buying the Stieff grand for myself in October of 2005, I’ve wanted to get back into piano rebuilding … particularly grand rebuilding. I thought it would be good to pick up an inexpensive grand as a first experience with grand rebuilding. I’ve also thought that the foyer of Syracuse Arts Academy (Terri’s new school) should have a grand piano. A grand piano is just a suitable icon for an “arts academy”, and of course it would add to the music program in a “grand way”.
These two objectives came to an obvious conjuncture, when I saw an affordable Stieff piano on eBay. I bought the piano and went to southern California to pick it up on June 9. I hope to have it rebuilt and in the school by October.
The completed eBay auction is here: (Ebay Auction)
I’ll be documenting progress on the project here. Terri took nice pictures of the California move. The pictures are here (Flickr.com).
stieffs are reat for rebuid . scale 32 mapes has a good model so you don’t need to send the old string set to them . I found a 1913 Abchase 6 foot to do. I don’t have much eperience with cracks. small cracks only.