Schroeder’s Piano Service

Specialties

Piano and organ sales and restoration.

History

Established in 1957.

It was 1957 when Mr. Raymond Hewitt and Mr. Seeker opened their small piano store and refinishing shop in the orange groves of Paramount, CA.



In 1981, Schroeder’s Pianos purchased Hewitt Pianos, a business established in 1957 by Mr. Ray Hewitt. Mr. Schroeder retained Mr. Hewitt for three years; to continue his training in sales, store management, refinishing and other aspects of the piano business that Mr. Hewitt had acquired during his sixty plus years in the trade.

The name of the piano store was later changed to Schroeder’s Pianos. Over the years, Mr. Schroeder has refined a number of techniques and tools to help Schroeder’s technical friends accomplish their work at a high level. These include specially designed tools for a tuner in Southern California who is blind. At present, Schroeder’s Pianos features four showrooms of used pianos, on a half acre in Paramount, California.

Meet the Business Owner

Stephen S.

Business Owner

Mr. Schroeder began his piano apprenticeship in 1967. He joined the US Air Force in 1969 where he received training in the repair of automatic flight control systems for cargo jet aircraft. Mr. Schroeder began full time piano repair and restoration in 1975 skillfully completing the repairs that his father and associates could send him, such as fabrication of broken or missing parts, stringing, pin blocks, sound board repair, shaping hammers, advanced regulation, voicing and moving etc. It is the intuitive understanding of pianos and the innate ability to analyze and problem solve that make Steve special in his field.

Formal Education:

13 ½ years

US Air Force Automatic Pilot Repair 1 year

Institutional Piano Clients:

Staff for 8 years at California State University, Los Angeles

San Gabriel Civic Auditorium

Bellflower Civic Auditorium

Dozens of various local public and private schools and institutions.