The millennial begins pulling century-old innards from an upright beast. The piano’s action, with its felt hammers, is among ...

Navy veteran Michael Bryant has spent decades restoring forgotten instruments, but as he retires, his rare skills fade, leaving fewer experts to keep old player pianos alive in town. Molly Gilbert ...

In 1918, Lucy Gooch received a wondrous gift from her parents – a new player piano from Montelius Music House in Seattle.

As a small boy in Seattle, Richard C. Simonton listened in awe to the music that came out of the big Welte pipe organ that one of the town’s rich men had imported from Germany. The organ was equipped ...