Steinway has represented extreme excellence in the world of the piano for 165 years. These iconic instruments are built to a unique design, with unique methodology, and unless a Steinway is restored or rebuilt with the precise techniques and genuine materials used by Steinway themselves, the result is not an authentic Steinway.

 

Ian Burgess-Simpson has developed the capacity to restore and rebuild Steinways at this level over a period of 25 years and has built a company with the specialist expertise and infrastructure to produce a result that ranks internationally with that of Steinway themselves.

 

Our rebuild technicians have attended Advanced Training at Steinway in Hamburg. Ian himself has had both Steinway Factory Training and attended the prestigious Steinway Academy for Concert Technicians, where he received one-on-one training from Georges Ammann, Steinway’s Chief Concert Technician for Europe and Asia.

 

This blend of up to date knowledge of new Steinway production with decades of restoration of classic Steinways – the oldest Steinways we have restored date back to 1875 – makes us uniquely capable of bringing any Steinway piano up to its absolute optimum condition as a musical instrument, and value as an investment.

 

The Steinway methodology is far more than a process-it is a unique way of understanding and approaching the fundamentals of great piano touch and tone.

 

To date we have rebuilt more than 109 Steinway pianos, comprising 89 grands of which 23 are Model D full concert grands. Every one of these pianos has been personally finished by Ian.