While there are still a handful of boutique piano makers in Australia, the major producers of the 20 th Century, Beale and Wertheim are long gone. Leaver said he was also looking to import old and rundown French pianos to be restored and sold in Australia and would explore the possibility of sending restored Australian made pianos to Europe. “I’ve got some meetings over there with piano restoration businesses – what will come out of it I don’t know yet but the sky is the limit with piano restoration, it’s everywhere around the world.” “Whether that morphs into our piano restoration experts going to France and theirs coming here like an exchange I don’t know but the whole purpose of this trip is to discover what we can do. “We want to pick up work in Paris and hopefully set up a piano restoration business there,” Leaver said. Leaver has also started a mobile service in Melbourne and plans to set up in Hobart by the end of the year.īut next week’s trip to France presents possibly the most exciting opportunity in the company’s 14-year history. Last year the small South Australian company tuned more than 400 pianos, sold 125 and restored 28 pianos from places as far flung as Townsville, Broome and New Zealand. Leaver and his seven staff now tune, restore and sell vintage pianos around Australia. Adelaide business Joe Leaver & Son began in 2004 after Leaver had spent four years in Tasmania learning the trade under one of Australia’s most experienced piano tuners and restorers Eric Hawkes.
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