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1876 Steinway (Rebuilt 1998) |
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THE VICTORIAN PIANO |
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Toni Van Loan 657 Warburton Avenue Yonkers, New York 10701
Phone: 914-965-5110 |
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The Vintage Steinway Piano Action Specialist |
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A PIANO TECHNICIAN WITH EXPERIENCE AND INTEGRITY WHO WORKS WITHIN YOUR BUDGET |
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To contact us: |
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I'll start by introducing myself. My name is Toni, and the Victorian Piano has been my business for 20 years. I was apprenticed to 2 old-line European rebuilders in the late 70's, when I started out by patching up tired old "church basement" uprights. I ran an ad in the "Village Voice" (for non- NYCers, a popular, still extant artsy weekly paper) "Old Uprights My Specialty". I fixed up quite a few bad pianos, that established technicians didn't want to bother with, ---- and learned a lot. I started a long affiliation with Steinway in the early 80's as a troubleshooter for weird piano problems, and gradually became their resident expert on pre WW2 uprights. The Steinway uprights have never stopped coming. I have done repairs ranging from fixing sticky keys to total restorations on over 3000 pianos. I have become the "double flange action" queen. (this is the notoriously balky action used in Steinway uprights from 1870 to 1935) |