DETROIT – The Detroit Opera is opening its doors for a three-day piano sale, Sept. 5–7, offering more than 200 new and gently used pianos to the public by appointment only. The sale fills the main ...

The first thing you notice at Nate Otto’s Anoka house is the hearse in the driveway, a 1967 Olds 98 with tattered curtains and a rusted body. Inside is a small, 100-year-old reed organ built for a ...

One Minnesota repairman brings musical history back to life. About a decade ago, Nate Otto opened Rum River Restoration in his Anoka garage to bring new life to the player piano. “It’s a piano that ...

ANOKA, Minn. — Microsoft was born in a garage. Nate Otto’s garage is home to some much older tech. “Especially if you're in 1916, it’s the top tech of the day,” Nate says as he pumps the foot pedals ...

Imagine a scene in the parlor: You sit down at your turn-of-the-century player piano and start pumping the pedals. The piano roll becomes taut and then slips smoothly from one spool to the other. The ...

Navy veteran Michael Bryant has spent decades restoring forgotten instruments, but as he retires, his rare skills fade, leaving fewer experts to keep old player pianos alive in town. Molly Gilbert ...

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