Pieholden Suite Sound (2116 W. Chicago) is a recording studio tucked inside an obscure building in Ukrainian Village. The one-story superstructure might have been a blockhouse. Or maybe a kindergarten. Navigating the labyrinth of hallways, I pass a bathroom with stalls and school desks just before the space opens up to a hoard of instruments. Vintage guitars line one wall; a live room stuffed with pianos, Wurlitzers, and a virginal harpsichord acts as fodder for a keyboard player’s wet dream. The building—actually a former rec center—is now a musician’s playground, as well as a shrine to Pieholden’s founder.
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Unique to most studios, Pieholden has an instrument-repair workshop on-site. DeWine explains, “I realized Jay’s guitar collection is vast and old, and I wanted to maintain it.”
