Piano Servicing, Tuning, and Rebuilding

Name: Piano Servicing, Tuning, and Rebuilding
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PTY Ltd
SKU: 9781538114445
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A Guide for the Professional, Student, and Hobbyist

By Arthur A. Reblitz

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Piano Servicing, Tuning, and Rebuilding by Arthur A. Reblitz is a comprehensive manual that has been the definitive guide for piano technicians and enthusiasts for over forty years. The third edition offers detailed instruction on upright and grand piano mechanics, servicing, repairs, and tuning techniques. It includes over 60 new and 300 updated images, modern adhesives and lubricants, and a brand new glossary, making it an essential resource for achieving optimal piano performance and longevity.
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Ideal for piano technicians, servicing students, pianists, and dedicated hobbyists seeking in-depth, hands-on knowledge to maintain and rebuild their instruments effectively.

All the information needed for restoring and maintaining pianos is contained in this clearly written volume. Reblitz provides the ultimate reference book and instruction manual for both the professional and the amateur, with vital updates since the publication of the second edition.

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For over forty years, Arthur A. Reblitz’s Piano Servicing, Tuning, and Rebuilding has been the gold-standard manual for piano technicians and hands-on hobbyists who want to rebuild or maintain pianos. Reblitz demystifies the daunting prospect of working on a piano as he guides readers through every detail of upright and grand piano mechanics and describes servicing and repairs with understandable, easy-to-follow instructions.

The third edition of this invaluable handbook includes over 60 new and 300 remastered images of piano anatomy, tools, and techniques; consideration of ivory alternatives and the newest adhesives and lubricants; new material covering the art of tuning by ear and today’s sophisticated electronic tuning devices; new repair and rebuilding techniques; and a brand new glossary of terms.

Piano Servicing, Tuning, and Rebuilding provides piano technician and servicing programs, pianists, and amateur players and hobbyists around the world with an essential twenty-first-century guide to achieving peak performance and maximum longevity for their instruments.

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Experts praise the book for its clear and practical guidance, with Jim Fariss noting it as a valued reference since starting his tuning career. Don Teach highlights the expanded repair section that simplifies piano maintenance. Laura Olsen commends the updated explanations and modern techniques, calling it a vital resource for the next generation of technicians.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781538114445

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 04 November 2019

Country: United States

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield

Edition: 3rd edition

Illustration: 413 b/w illustrations;17 b/w photos

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 22.0mm

Width: 215.0mm

Height: 286.0mm

Weight: 943g

Pages: 344

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About the Author

Arthur A. Reblitz is a registered piano technician and member of the Piano Technician’s Guild. He is recognized as one of the world’s leading authorities on restoration of orchestrions, coin pianos, and reproducing pianos. His shop, Reblitz Restorations, Inc., has restored automatic musical instruments for many of the world’s foremost public and private museums and collections. Reblitz is known worldwide as one of the finest arrangers of music for these instruments.

Other books by Reblitz include Player Piano Servicing and Rebuilding, Treasures of Mechanical Music (with Q. David Bowers), and The Mills Violano-Virtuoso (with Michael L. Kitner). He has written articles for The Guidebook of Automatic Music Instruments, Encyclopedia of Automatic Musical Instruments, the News Bulletin of the Musical Box Society International, the Bulletin of the Automatic Musical Instrument Collector’s Association, and The Coin Slot magazine. He is the 1982 recipient of the Literary Award of the Musical Box Society for Outstanding Literary Contributions to the Field of Automatic Music and the 1993 recipient of the Leo Ornstein Literary Award of the Automatic Musical Instrument Collectors’ Association.