Steve Riesen’s piano warehouse in College Park is full of hard-luck stories: The shiny Yamaha player piano was once owned by a Jacksonville woman who lost everything when the real-estate mark… ...

He's been in the player piano restoration-conversion business since 1996, ... Others have customers' name tags and prices attached, prices that range from $4,500 to as high as $15,000.

Player pianos have been around since the 19th century. ... You can play it like a standard piano or you can play its recordings, and you can buy it for a Steinwayish price in the low six figures.

One Minnesota repairman brings musical history back to life. About a decade ago, Nate Otto opened Rum River Restoration in ...

DETROIT - You could get a good deal on a swanky piano. Detroit Opera, formerly Michigan Opera Theatre, is selling more than 200 of them. We’re talking new and gently used, vintage Steinways ...

Better quality player pianos, such as this 1913 model owned by Carmen Farmer of Picayune, Miss., are now considered collectibles. THE PIECE: A vintage player piano, J.P. Seeburg Co., from 1913 THE ...

The player piano, which can claim roots back to the 19th century, began its decline from the popular consciousness in the 1920s when the phonograph began to overtake the medium.