The best part of my piano studio is my custom-built Fandrich and Sons upright piano! I've had it for five years now, and it's a joy to play it every day. It's a lifelong dream of mine come true.
On March 18, students from Maltby Piano Studio traveled 60 miles north of where I live and teach in Maltby to a small town in Skagit County called Stanwood. There, Heather and Darrell Fandrich have a piano showroom and factory on the property where they live. We were invited to bring our music along, and spend a couple of hours touring the factory and playing every piano in the showroom.
What an experience this was! The Fandrich family lives in a gated compound in a lovely country setting. The piano "showroom" is a large log cabin garage converted to a climate-controlled space where the finished pianos reside. After trying out all of the instruments, we got to see where the pianos are built and finished in the large factory building, which looks like an old barn. It's so fun to see the computers that are used in the creation of these instruments sitting in what looks like an outbuilding on a rural piece of property.
Here are some pictures from our day.
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| Piano Showroom--The mahogany piano is priced at $80K! |
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| Heather Fandrich giving us the story of the Fandrich Family |
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Touring the factory
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| Tuning the keys |
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| A Piano with the patented Fandrich Vertical Action |
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| Two uprights in the background |
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Me with Darrell Fandrich
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