Saddlewood Pianos

Stockport-based piano restoration for the North West.

You might not think that the tired, dusty piano propped up against your wall is capable of galloping through mazurkas or twinkling through jazz standards with concert-quality sound, but Peter of Saddlewood Pianos would disagree with you.  

An instrument may be abrasively out of tune, it might look like Laurel and Hardy dropped it down the stairs, but this does not prevent it from returning to or even exceeding its original quality. 

Saddlewood Pianos is a Stockport-based business offering piano tuning and repair for the North West and beyond. Owner Peter's work involves everything from the restoration of family heirlooms and total instrument overhauls to minor tuning adjustments. 

Peter began tuning pianos as a hobby, a natural progression from a background in playing the instrument and an interest in engineering.  

Whilst working as an IT technician in various schools, Peter would stay behind and fix the pianos, provided the school in question had one and was willing to let him try. "I'd stay after hours until the caretaker kicked me out!", he says.

After learning the craft in this way, Peter began to take piano restoration more seriously, and got a job as a technician in a local piano shop - by this point his skill was so compelling that he was given the job without any formal piano-fixing qualifications.  

Now a full-time piano technician based in Stockport, Peter's work takes him around the country, and with every instrument comes a different story.