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I'm still having fun with the Wm. Dunkley piano, and have made progress at getting it back in shape a bit. Tuning with the Korg CA-30 is quite easy (though doesn't work so well for the bottom octave -- the detection of key waivers a lot, so octave tuning is required). I actually find it easiest to r...

Keytop material: I had thought the keys on my Dunkley were made of ivory. But several had to be re-glued, and I was puzzled by the flexibility -- almost 'vinyl' nature of them, rather than the brittleness of ivory. (I have also since read that the ivory keytops were always made in two pieces). It is...

We bought a Wm. Dunkley upright in 1990, in a little town called Longford in Tasmania. We had hints and guesses as to its age, and arrived at about 1890. So that roughly agrees with the 1865 est. of Wm. Dunkley piano manufacture (the S/n is 2719, so a product of the established process). We've broug...