The Brief
- Customers of an embattled piano repair shop contacted police after several pianos were found in three storage units.
- One of those customers tells Contact 6 his family paid a $1,000 deposit to refinish a piano in 2019.
- Police found 28 pianos in the storage lockers and tracked down three owners.
WEST ALLIS, Wis. – Eight customers of a piano repair shop called West Allis police after more than two dozen pianos were discovered in storage units in February. None of their missing pianos were inside the lockers.
A police report obtained by Contact 6 says police learned of the units from a woman who’d acquired them one year prior from Storage Rentals of America on Lapham Street. She said the previous owner had defaulted on his payments. The woman also found paperwork inside the lockers connecting the instruments to Neuhaus Piano Workshop – and she’d seen Contact 6’s reporting on the shop’s unhappy customers.
What They’re Saying
What they’re saying:
One of the workshop’s customers, who called police after learning of the storage units, was Len Wesner in Oshkosh. In Wesner’s living room is a 1920s player piano that’s cherished by his family. Wesner bought the piano 20 years ago from Arnold Neuhaus. Neuhaus ran a respected piano business in West Allis for decades until his death in 2016.…