Articles

  • Back Checks – Installing a modification to help control hammer bounce.
  • Cabinet Repair – Repairing the wooden cabinet that houses the piano.
  • Hammers and Dampers – Cleaning and replacing the hammer tips.
  • Key Bushings – Removing and replacing the felt that manages the contact between keys and guide pins.
  • Key Tops – Removing and replacing the white plastic key tops.
  • Miracle Mod – Installing a critical modification to improve the action of most pianos from the early to mid seventies.
  • Parallel Pickup Wiring – A modification for a Fifty Four to give it a tone more similar to that of a Seventy Three.
  • Pickup Repair – Rewinding damaged pickups.
  • Plastic Guide Pins – Repairing the plastic guide pins used in later Mark II pianos.
  • Stretch Tuning – Tuning a Rhodes using the stretch tuning specifications provided by the service manual.
  • Tines and Tone Bars – Cleaning and preparing the tone bars for zinc plating.
  • Tine Bomb Preamp – Installing Vintage Vibe’s Tine Bomb preamp into a Fifty Four.
  • Tolex – Installing the cabinet’s vinyl covering.
  • Zinc Plating – Considerations for having the metal harp components replated.