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The Journal News – February 1999   Below, John Ford, owner of Ford Piano Rebuilding in Peekskill, plays a 1909 small grand Steinway piano that he rebuilt in his shop. Not shown, Chris Gonzalez, an employee, reattaches the lyre and pedal assembly on the vintage piano, which is...

The Star – January 2001     By Susan Chitwood John Ford has rebuilt pianos for any number of famous professional musicians, including John Lennon, Roberta Flack and Stephen Soundheim. He has also restored pianos for the rich amateur musician, including Middle Eastern Sheik whose malachite grand piano needed resuscitation. But when...

Westchester County Business Journal – April 2001       John Ford started Ford Piano Co. in 1985 in Peekskill to carry on a century-old family tradition that his grandfather brought to America from Hungary. John Fekete, who emigrated to the United States from Hungary in the 1890s, opened Fekete Pianos...

The New York Times – June 2001 By: Mark Ferris     John Ford Jr. Can Rebuild an Instrument From the Bottom Up… Like people, pianos decay over time. The instruments seem to be static, but the strings exert 20 tons of pressure on the frame, which eventually tears the...

  Signs tentative deal to acquire Hermax building. By Brian J. Howard John Ford has grand plans for downtown Peekskill, and he’s hopeful a deal he swung last week with the city will make them real. Ford owns Ford Piano, a  piano rebuilding business on Division Street, and lists...

Discussing Piano Rebuilding with Peekskill’s John P. Ford Jr. is like talking to Bill Gates about computers.  Ford seems to know everything about the instrument.  After all, pianos are his passion.  He loves them – how they look, how they sound and, most of all,...

Keys to third-generation shop owner’s passion are all in the music Abigail Klingbeil Kim Papa sits near the back of Ford Piano tapping the keys on one of the shop’s shiny black instruments.  Boom.  Boom.  Bing.The untrained ear can differentiate the low booms from the high-pitched bings.  ...