[CAUT] Fun recycling

[David Ilvedson]

That is VERY COOL...wouldn't last long on my deck though...
It looks like the keys were all connected near the middle (glue?) and fanned out to create that shape...

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044

----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Zeno Wood" <zeno.wood at gmail.com>
To: caut at ptg.org
Received: 9/16/2009 11:59:28 AM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Fun recycling


>I give parts to a professor who is an amateur artist, I'm attaching a photos
>of one of his pieces.  I also pop the hammer heads off the shanks and give
>them to students for their keychains, they love 'em!

>-Zeno Wood


>On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Paul T Williams <
>pwilliams4 at unlnotes.unl.edu> wrote:

>> Does everyone out there simply throw out your worn out action parts?  I
>> have done so for years. until today.  I just finished installing new hammers
>> and shanks on a practice room grand.  I took the old parts, put them in a
>> box, put it outside the door of my shop with a sign saying,"Free Steinway
>> Hammers".  It's been about an hour, and most of them are now gone!  I heard
>> lots of students talking about it and searching for certain numbers like
>> 21,22,23 etc.  probably their ages.
>>
>> Just thought it would be a fun experiment....and it's working.
>>
>> The 'green' technician
>> Paul
>>