Laurence Broadmoore has been restoring pneumatic player pianos since age 16, when he became an apprentice in a player piano shop in Cincinnati, Ohio. His uncanny instinct for mechanical science and deep love of music, together with an intense interest in the past - particularly in the 19th century - led him to his current profession.

Afterwards attending Bard College in Upstate New York and eventually settling in nearby Tivoli, he opened his first, very small, piano restoration shop.

Broadmoore came to California to help restore the mechanical musical instruments at the world-famous "San Sylmar" museum, prior to opening up his own shop in San Fernando, California in 1981.

Broadmoore Piano Company has restored everything from spinets and upright player and non-player pianos, to the Coinola X; the Violano-Virtuoso; and, for one customer, both the rare and gigantic Hupfeld "Helios" Orchestrion and the even bigger Mortier Orchestrion 40 years ago, both of which are still to this day working well!

We have done work for studios and celebrities, ranging from Ann Miller and Henry Mancini to Whoopi Goldberg and Tom Snyder. We are best known around the world for our success in meticulous restoration of the extremely intricate "expression" type player mechanisms.

Though we have restored many instruments for private collections, most of our work is for individuals who have bought or inherited a single instrument. We provide friendly, dependable service and are always willing to work within the customer's budget, if necessary, selecting those items that will best and most authentically revitalize the instrument for the least cost!

Having mastered the player element of the pianos some time ago, in the past several years we have also perfected our treatment of the piano action itself, using little-known and even more seldom-used procedures to achieve results that have delighted our customers with startling improvements in both the touch and the tone of their pianos.