Trade Workshop Services
Specialist restoration and rebuilding for the piano trade.
The Sykes & Sons workshop has long provided specialist restoration services to fellow piano professionals, undertaking commissions that extend beyond the facilities or capabilities of their own businesses.
Independent tuners, technicians, restorers and piano dealers entrust us with work ranging from individual specialist repairs to extensive mechanical and structural rebuilding. For these professionals, our workshop provides access to the equipment, experience and facilities necessary to undertake work that cannot ordinarily be accommodated within their own operations.
Workshop Capabilities
Our trade commissions encompass a broad range of specialist operations, including complete and partial restringing, wrest plank replacement, bridge rebuilding, action overhauls and complete action replacement.
We also undertake comprehensive keyboard restoration, including specialist key recovering, together with cabinet and cosmetic repairs, and the rectification of damage sustained during handling or transportation.
Where required, individual operations may be undertaken as part of a larger restoration programme managed by the commissioning professional.
A Professional Partnership
Our relationship with the trade is founded upon an understanding that the instruments entrusted to us often represent longstanding relationships between fellow professionals and their customers.
We undertake each commission with appropriate discretion, working within an agreed scope while respecting the responsibilities and established relationships of those who engage our services.
Whether a single specialist operation or a more extensive restoration is required, each project is considered on its individual merits, with the proposed work, costs and anticipated timescales established in advance.
Trade Enquiries
We welcome enquiries from fellow piano professionals seeking access to the specialist capabilities of the Sykes & Sons workshop.
To discuss a prospective commission, please contact us with details of the instrument and the work required.