Infrequently asked questions,

 

Why did you build it?

 

Because I wanted to hear what it would sound like, that is purely for my own edification, and not to demonstrate any principles or show any one else what to do.

 

Did you have any previous experience, for instance were you a piano tuner or technician?

 

No, I did not have any piano experience, I was not a professional piano anything and I still don’t have any connection to a professional organization such as the PTG. One of the advantages of this was that at the outset I was not hampered by the knowledge that what I was about to do was impossible.

 

Did you make everything yourself?

 

Yes, everything accept the action and certain hardware parts such as casters, and clearly not the strings, but the rest including keys and key frame, plate, rim press and rim, soundboard and all the case parts, legs etc., I made in my shop.

 

 

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A very brief history

 

In 1999, I hade a little money in my pocket and I decided that I would not be able to die in peace if I did not try to make a piano. This was a project I had been contemplating for about twenty years, reading everything that I could get my hands on, which wasn't very much. I started drawing scales and these quickly grew from an instrument of about eight feet to one longer than twelve. In the end, I contacted a very talented fellow named Delwin Fandrich, whose work I had been reading and asked him to take a look at my scales, which he did and drew up three new ones. Del wrote a short letter advising me to do this and that, and that was about it. It took another six months or so to finish all the drawings, and then I started to build….