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Pianos Inside Out™:
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Pianos Inside Out is a comprehensive guide that takes an in-depth look at all aspects of piano design, construction, and maintenance. It provides thorough, practical advice to anyone who wants to learn to repair, tune, regulate, voice, or rebuild pianos.
The book is written for hobbyists and piano technicians, but it will also help pianists and piano owners understand their pianos, and better communicate with their technicians. It contains clear and concise, step-by-step instructions with over 600 illustrations and diagrams.
Discover how to evaluate the piano, assess what you need, and develop a rebuilding plan. You will learn how to restore a keyboard and action, how to select and install new hammers, rebuild dampers, restring the piano, replace its pinblock, repair and recrown the soundboard, regild the plate, and refinish the case.
Along the way, you will encounter topics such as:
- What makes pianists sound so different from each other
- What gives the piano long sustain
- Why minute adjustments in string leveling are critical for voicing and sound volume
- How action geometry and touchweight affect playability and hot to improve it
- Inharmonicity and its effects on tuning
- How to transport a piano action
- How to move a grand piano
Mario Igrec is a concert technician and master rebuilder who worked for Richard Goode, Jon Kimura Parker, Garrick Ohlsson, and other renowned pianists during his tenure as piano technician at Louisiana State University. He serviced and rebuilt numerous pianos in southern Louisiana. As an award-winning pianist with a master of music degree from SUNY Stony Brook, he has a rare combination of skills that give him a unique and pragmatic perspective on piano technology. He is a software architect and CTO at Selltis LLC, a CRM company that he co-founded in 2000. See more about the author.
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