by Renaissance Piano Service | Oct 28, 2026 | Uncategorized
Many of us met Armstrong Sperry in a school library. His novel Call It Courage tells of Mafatu, a Polynesian boy who is afraid of the sea, and who sets out alone in a canoe to face the thing he fears most. It won the Newbery Medal in 1941 and has been read by...
by Renaissance Piano Service | Oct 28, 2026 | Uncategorized
Some pianos come to us with a concert career behind them. Others come with something quieter: years in a family living room, where friends gathered and music happened because someone sat down and played. Our 1913 Steinway Model M, serial number 161827, is the second...
by Renaissance Piano Service | Oct 28, 2026 | Uncategorized
Inside the case of one grand piano in our collection, written on the cast-iron harp, there is a signature: Josef Lhévinne. Beside it is a place and a date: Denver, February 12, 1907. In our Boulder-area shop, we spend our days inside pianos. We see plenty of pencil...
by Renaissance Piano Service | Oct 28, 2026 | Uncategorized
This morning marks 140 years since the Statue of Liberty was dedicated in New York Harbor. On October 28, 1886, the great copper figure on Bedloe’s Island, the place we now call Liberty Island, was formally given to the American people. She has held her torch...
