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The library host free recitals once a month for adults as well as numerous programs for children. Ramaty said the piano will complement the musical programs at the library.
Paul’s rummage sale in November and had it moved from St. Vera Ramaty, the children’s librarian at Kensington Park, found the piano at the St. Paul’s used it for 15 years until it could not be used due to tuning problems. Paul’s when they moved to Florida in 1978. The piano had been originally owned by Ralph and Helmi Carpenter, St. “We have to keep music alive and we sometimes have to give things away,” Schaeffer said. Schaeffer also loans pianos to the East Coast Jazz Festival, an annual event held in Maryland every year. He provides free tunings and low cost or free loaner pianos for the Washington Ensemble, a District of Columbia opera company. This year he donated a piano to auction at the annual Helen Hayes Awards, a Washington award ceremony which honors and benefits actors and theater companies. Philanthropy is something that Schaeffer engages in to foster music appreciation. Schaeffer said that after the piano is restored it will be worth about $10,000. Now there are only two big ones left, Steinway and Baldwin, and a handful of little ones, Schaeffer said. Schaeffer said the piano was built in a time when there were more than 300 piano builders in the United States. There are more than 12,000 moving parts in a piano to check. The inside sound board will be mended with new wood and he will put in new string, new felt and regild the bridge plate. The outside will be stripped and finished with 20 coats of lacquer. Schaeffer said he plans to do a complete restoration to “put the Farrand in first class shape.” All the keys, some of which are chipped, will be replaced. Schaeffer will also loan a piano to the library for the interim while he repairs the Ferrand. The work on the library’s piano will take three months and 250 hours of labor and cost about $10,000, Schaeffer said. It also offers complete restoration, touch-up and tuning of pianos. “It meets our public relations needs as well as the library’s.” Cairo said.įounded in 1901, the Schaeffer Piano Co., is a family-owned company owned and run by Frederick Earl Schaeffer, 42, grandson of the founder, John Schaeffer. “It’s a wonderful gift to our community.”Īfter a story ran in the Gazette on April 17 noting the need for skilled volunteers to fix the piano, Schaeffer’s advertising consultant, Michael Cairo, thought it would benefit both the library and the company. “This is very generous.” Keith Fleeman, community librarian at Kensington Park, said. Paul’s United Methodist Church in Kensington in December, has chipping paint and needs mechanical repairs.
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gives church 'wonderful gift'Īfter several months of looking for volunteers, the Kensington Park Library’s 1920s Farrand baby grand piano will be repaired and refinished for free by the Schaeffer Piano Co.
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