Classic Piano People
Besides having my three sons in the business with me — Aaron, Brian, and Taylor — I am fortunate to be surrounded by some of the best piano people to be found in the business — marketing, sales, and service professionals who all share my passion for fine pianos. Collectively, they represent well over 150 years of experience with five-star rated pianos from American, European, and Asian piano makers.
Maurice Unis,
President, Classic Pianos
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History
My passion was to take pianos and make them great instruments, says Maurice Unis, describing how he came to start Moes Pianos back in the mid-1970s. I like physical work, so to physically maneuver a piano through a tough move, bring it back and repair it, and then deliver it and see the pleasure it can bring to a family: it was a good combination.
In fact, Unis had grown up around pianos. His maternal grandfather, Maurice T. Schuster, a violinist and piano tuner, owned Acme Piano Company in Selwood.
Today
In 2001 Maurice Unis and his eldest son, Brian, opened Classic Pianos at 3003 SE Milwaukie Avenue in a historic building that had earlier housed a violin maker.
As soon as the shop was established, there grew up around Classic a large community of piano-related businesses craftsmen and technicians dedicated to the restoration of fine old instruments, a piano moving company, piano teachers working out of the studios at Classic, a sheet music business, and the Aladdin Theater.