Final chord: royal piano restorer sells lifetime's collection

Royal piano restorer David Winston poses for a photograph with an exceptionally rare Pleyel grand piano, made in Paris, dated 1925, at his workshop in Biddenden in south-east England. Photo: AFP

There's little to distinguish the farm building in Kent, southeast England, from others nearby, except for one thing: the royal warrant over the door.

"By appointment to Her Majesty the Queen, conservators and restorers of pianos," it reads.