For owners, these keys can raise a complicated mix of feelings: respect for the instrument’s history, discomfort about its origins, and uncertainty about what’s legally allowed when it comes to repairs, restorations, or selling. Public attitudes and laws have evolved significantly over the last few decades.

Reconditioned Knight K10 pianos remain to be one of our most popular models and demand for them has only continued to increase.

At Sykes & Sons, we work to a very simple principle. If we sell a piano today, we must be confident that we would still be happy to sell that same piano again twenty years from now. That belief quietly guides almost every decision we make in the workshop. It shapes the instruments we select, the work we carry out while they are here, and the advice we give to customers when they are selecting a piano. It is also the reason we are comfortable offering what we call our “buy-bac

This Chappell Model B came to me from a family that had owned it since the 1960s. When they first contacted me, their request was simple. They wanted the piano to have the best possible chance of a long future. They understood that the instrument would need careful work, and they knew that at Sykes & Sons, we are prepared to go to considerable lengths when preparing these well-built British pianos for their next chapter. After arranging a visit to see the instrument in person