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Today, the presence of ivory on an older piano can cause understandable uncertainty. Owners are often unsure whether it may be retained or repaired, whether the piano can still be sold, or whether possessing the instrument is itself restricted. The distinction is important: the law does not prohibit the ownership of an ivory-keyed piano. It regulates dealing in it.

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

The Sykes & Sons Specialist Sourcing Service is a private service for customers seeking a particular piano. We maintain individual sourcing briefs and offer carefully selected instruments to waiting clients before they are made available for general sale. Many of the pianos sourced in this way never appear on our website.

Some thoughts settle quietly somewhere in the background of our minds, only to return many years later with an altogether different meaning. The words themselves haven't changed, but we have, and so we hear them differently. For me, one such thought has followed me since the earliest days of my apprenticeship: “Study your art and practise it with an earnest purpose.” An elder technician offered it as advice to a young apprentice, and for years I wrote those words on the first