Workshop Film

In 2012 we made this short film in the workshop, which follows the repair of a circa 1800 Jacobus Ball square piano, and demonstrates some of the things required to bring a piano back into playing condition.

We made a recording of a newly restored Dettmer square piano, circa 1815, played by Kenneth Mobbs, to give you a sample of a typical sound from a square piano of that period.

Scherzo (allegreto vivace) No 70 of "Gradus ad Parnassum"
Muzio Clementi