Spencer's passion and life long trade of 30 years is restoring, buying, selling, tuning, repairing, refinishing and doing virtually anything with the piano. In any given year he works on around 500 pianos and is a member of the Piano Technicians Guild. He has worked on pianos for pianists like Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Gaby Casadesus, Lyle Mays, Dick Hyman, Oscar Peterson and countless others. He specialized for years on player pianos and instruments from the 19th century.

He now runs a full scale rebuilding and service shop that sees around 100 pianos yearly. In the same building structure as the Ukiah Music Center, Mendocino Piano specializes in refinishing, reguilding, restringing, action regulating, voicing, and a plethora of other new and and old restorative techniques. He and his staff have a passion for bringing old world pianos back to their original splendor while trying to incorporate new and developing rebuilding techniques to each instrument they work on.

From his love of the piano, he also hosts once a month a radio show entitled, The Wonderful World of Pianos which documents the composers, players, manufacturers lives, and music since the inception of the piano. The show is heard on the local Mendocino County NPR station KZYX.

For information on having Spencer work on your piano, please email (sbrewer@pacific.net) or call him at the Ukiah Music Center (707-462-8863)