That keyboard art is really cool! Thanks for sharing. I have made interesting "arrangements" of de-strung piano wire with good coils in tact like a flower bouquet. My mother-in-law has one in a vase in her home. I'm thinking of making a Christmas wreath out of hammers/shanks for this holiday season...painted red, of course! Go Huskers! Maybe green knuckles.....Also made a keychain from a 1890 Steinway upright hammer (no shank) Have fun everyone! Paul From: Zeno Wood <zeno.wood at gmail.com> To: caut at ptg.org Date: 09/16/2009 02:05 PM 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 [attachment "constructs (32).jpg" deleted by Paul T Williams/Music/UNL/UNEBR] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20090916/1d4702c5/attachment-0001.htm>
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