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 Piano tuner, movers, restorers 

Orange County &  Los Angeles

2007 2005    2006    2007

 

WHAT MY CUSTOMERS SAY

 

  This year we added VIDEO

 

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Olav Bergheim of Laguna Beach, CA is a Norwegian immigrant who used to practice the piano 6 hours a day in his youth but had abandoned it in his college days.  Now, after a few decades of working in the field of life sciences, his interest in the piano has rekindled and he wants to get back into his playing form, to play his style of crooner jazz as in the old days he did at parlors, bars, and gigs with bands on the road.  He has an excellent piano, a little Schimmel which had bought new for $2,000 and which, in current day, would cost 5x as much.  After the tuning and tone repair to his spinet was done, he said "Thank you. It sounds very good. I'm glad you did it."  He then asked Leo to tune his Steinway piano in his other house in Norway.   Leo would gladly oblige if travel fare and a pretty Norwegian hostess would be provided.

(5-8-07 T4, TS)

 

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Berni Lambert of Pacific Pallisades, CA is a British immigrant and a newcomer to the Los Angeles area.   She was a music teacher with many students and proudly claims, along with her tourist mother from the UK, to have perfect pitch ears.   She brought this beautiful Yamaha grand piano out here from the East coast and had let it settle for a year without doing anything to it.  As she had properly observed, whenever moving a piano from one climate region to another, it is a good idea to let the piano acclimate to its new surrounding before tuning it. The piano's tone was somewhat weak and uneven and its pitch was quite below standard pitch but after Leo's rigorous hammer work,  she says "It's very nice. It's exactly where I'd like it (the piano tuning) to be."

(5-4-07 T4, AS)

 

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Mathew Smith of Irvine, CA, a music student at Orange Coast Community College, is relieved to have his family's Kimball spinet piano repaired after months of complaining about it.   His specialty is the guitar but with a double major in composition, he'll spend lots of time at the piano.  His mom and sisters also play the piano but only occasionally, focusing mainly on religious ministry songs. The piano's touch was weak and uneven all across the board.  It was riddled with dead keys, slow responding keys, continuous ringing keys, double strike keys, dull tones, and, lastly, it was way off standard pitch.   After the repairs to bring all 88 keys back to life Mathew said "Now it's a much more enjoyable playing experience."

(4-26-07 T4, TS, DR, TR, R, KR11,  AY)

 

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Pat Fox of Brea, CA donated this Armstrong player piano along with 200 piano rolls to a retirement apartment community of the Rotary Club of Brea.  After our piano movers had brought in the repaired piano,  the ladies gathered around waiting eagerly to test the piano.  When the rolls started rolling and the Aeolian foot driven player piano made sounds they burst out with a wide grin of delight.  "Great. I'm so glad you fixed it," she said, then everyone watched mesmerized as the piano played automatically.

(4-11-07 T, PM,  AG)

 

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Jack Staub of Newport Beach, CA is the proud owner of a beautiful, restored, 1899 Bosendorfer grand piano.   In his spare time this radar electronic engineer, who was job transplanted here from the east coast, enjoys improvising original music on the piano for relaxation.   The piano was wonderfully restored in Poland by the Meyer Company and brought here.  It had a new Carpathian spruce soundboard and a new Renner action but it was way flat out of tune, had thin and uneven tones, and needed some internal recalibration for bring out better fuller sounds.  The piano was in a high humidity area which caused new strings to rust prematurely.  Living close to the ocean, it's best to have an automated humidity controller which can be installed underneath the piano. After the repairs, he said "I'm happy you did the work on the piano. It really came alive again.  It's a huge difference.  I really appreciate all the work that you did." Afterwards, Leo played an improvised classical minuet to test the tuning & repairs to which Jack commented "Excellent."

(4-8-07 T4, TS, R, P, SD, AG)

 

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The Costa Mesa Civic Playhouse is holding a musical  play featuring a pianist and several singers. They had an old piano that had been serviced only once in a blue moon.  A few keys had ringing tone problem, tone was hard as a hammer, and the tuning was way off.  After the service the manager, Mark Moneti said "I don't know about piano but it sounds good."

(3-27-07 T3, TS)

 

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Shirley England is a pleasant, chatty, retired lady from Lake Forest, CA who enjoys in playing religious hymns and popular light music.  Originally from Iowa, she moved to Chicago to start a family.  She soon divorced her abusive husband and moved out to California on her own. After a long career in nursing, she now lives quietly and volunteers as a tour guide for the Bower's museum in Santa Ana.  Her interest in cultural anthropology led her to visit China in 2000.  To this day still fascinated, she delighted in showing her album photos of her trip.  Photography is her hobby and her photos are of post card quality.  Her other hobby is the piano.   She has a 1952 Acrosonic spinet which sounded quite off tune and had an uneven and thin sound.   After Leo repaired her piano, she was astounded.  She said "Three previous piano tuners had worked on my piano and none had ever given me a sound like this.  I never could imagine my piano could sound so good.  I am so pleased that you came. Thank you."

(3-26-07 T4, TS)

 

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Ruth Biard, of Garden Grove, CA and her huge family enjoy playing Mormon hymns on their turn-of-the-century Iverson upright piano in their living room.  Originally from Arizona, she had moved out to California 25 yrs ago to raise eight well behaved kids in her husband's hometown of Garden Grove.  The piano was greatly out of tune and had some keys that had uneven touch and double-striking tones.  Lastly, 35 pennies were found underneath the keys.   Their piano teacher would use cute pennies placed atop of the children's hand to teach proper hand position.   After the tuning and repairs, she said "It sounded good."

(3-12-07 T2, KR5)

 

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Daniel Pok of Downey, CA had just come back from military service and immediately enrolled in Cerritos College,  majoring in music, his first love.  This modest immigrant family from Korea reminds me of my own (Vietnamese) immigrant days way back in the 1960s.  This big 6'1 Kawai grand piano dominates the living room.  How they had managed to move this big thing into their cramped apartment is still puzzling.  Besides being out of tune this piano had tone problems that were continuous, thin and hard sounding. When done, Daniel said "my piano problems were all fixed" and the family joined in saying "Wonderful repair."

(3-1-07 T4, TS, DR, AG)

 

Kathy Smith of Costa Mesa, CA loves to play church hymns and popular Broadway tunes on her Young Chang baby grand piano but she'd been greatly annoyed by its general tone and touch.  The tone sounded hard and thumpy; the touch felt stiff and uneven; and some keys weren't at level height with others. Checking out the piano afterwards, she exhaled out "Such an incredible difference from before. The piano tone and touch were masterfully repaired."

(2-24-07 TS, KR,  KL)

 

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Randy Casillan's spinet piano sat out collecting dust for years in the family house's billiard room  in Huntington Beach, CA.   Although it laid around since he was in elementary school, he had only taken note and interest in it now. Along with his studies at Orange Coast Community College this freshman has decided to learn to play the piano.   Throughout the tuning, he sat quietly in the background observing and said nothing.  When done, Randy said, "This is an excellent piano tuning."

 

(2-21-07, T1, AT)

 

 

The Duong family of Irvine, CA just picked up this used Yamaha U1 for $1500 for their 5 yr old son to play on. The piano sounded off standard pitch by a semitone, and the case was riddled with scratches, bad surface condition, and gouges.  They asked Leo to repair the piano, and to refinish the exterior.   Afterwards, content with the  repairs and the nice new polished piano, they asked Leo to play a Clayderman piano piece.  They liked Leo's playing and inquired about his background. and inquired about a piano teacher for their son, Eaton.

(1-27-07 T2, TS, RT, AT)

 

Richard of Anaheim, CA is a guitarist in the band that plays at the Magnolia Baptist Church in Anaheim, CA.  The band was displeased with past tuners whose piano tunings didn't match up to the band's instruments. The last tuning occurred just a few weeks back during Christmas holiday time.   There are a lot of fake piano tuners walking around.  Their tuning prices are a tad below Leo's price but they can't deliver.  When Leo inspected the church's Yamaha C-7grand, the piano was not even in standard pitch, meaning a major tuning was needed.   As Leo labored to retune the piano, this church member sat quietly nearby the piano the whole time and listened intently. When done, Leo asked what he thought about the piano's new sound and he exploded two words, "It's grrrrrrrrrrrrrreat !!!"

(1-27-07 T2, AT)

 

Seen here, Leo tunes pianos in the Suzuki booth at the 2007 National Association of Music Merchant (NAMM) convention in Anaheim, CA.  Leo is the official  piano tuner for the Suzuki Corp. (San Diego, CA) for Southern California.

(1-20-07 T)

 

Tan Mai, a new resident to Yorba Linda, CA, says we Southern Californians shouldn't grumble about the winter chill here because it gets even colder at night where he had come from, Phoenix, AZ.   This graphic designer's pastime interest is the piano.  He has a good ear that can detect the slightest note out of tune. Several piano technicians had tuned his piano in the past but none quite fully satisfied him but he didn't question things as he had assumed that those were the standards.  When Leo tuned his piano, he noticed a very different type of technician, someone who gives astounding results.  In his words, "This piano never sounded this way before. I never imagined it could sound so beautiful like this. I love it." Afterwards, Leo played a  Chopin piece and Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata to which he commented "Your playing is masterly. You should be a concert pianist rather than a tuner."

(1-18-07 T3, TS, AY)

 

Eliza Asawesna of Rowland Heights, CA recently inherited this Wurlitzer spinet piano which was in her mom's house for over 20 yrs. collecting dust.  Though she has a good ear and can play a little bit, the piano was to be for her daughter.  Two local piano tuners inspected the piano and gave her different stories of what's wrong along with their astronomical repair estimates. One tuner had taken over two days to repair the piano and the result was still poor.  Dissatisfied, she then checked online and came upon Leo.  After Leo's piano tuning and  repairs, she said "Wonderful sound. It took you just an afternoon to do what another piano tuner took 2 days and still couldn't do it."

(1-15-08 T3, TS, KR, AY)

 

Janet Litton of Brea, CA inherited this Young Chang piano from her aunt that was never serviced in 15 yrs.   The piano had dead tones and was way off pitch. The strings were inflexible due to it not having been tuned in a longtime.  She would like to take up piano practice and lessons again where she had last left off in her childhood.  After the repairs, she said "This piano is 100% better than it was before."

(1-13-08 T3, TS, AG)

 

Joshua Chase of Alta Dena, CA had kept his Young Chang console piano for over 20 years in garage storage and has finally took notice of it.   Now, established and married with a newborn, this line manager for giant high tech Cisco wants to relearn his childhood piano, with encouragement from his high tech wife who was a first violinist with her local Youth Symphony in her early years. This is a case of two people immersed in high tech, having found each other and a family, now wanting to rediscover their lost musical art. His neglected piano fell a semitone flat and bringing it back to standard pitch may take a few visits but already commenting after the first session, he said "What a difference from before. It's wonderful."

(1-6-07 T3, TS, AG)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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