1961 Winter Baby Grand- Cleaning soundboard

[jstuart1]

Thanks for the suggestions. I already have my shop setup with 3 8ft tables and
my dad's old cheep dining room table for work surface. The shop is just under
600 square feet and currently has the baby grand, 3 old uprights, a console, a
spinet, an old wurlitzer spinet organ and a Conn 3 manual theater organ. Not to
mention 5 pinball machines. I look at the possiblitiy of heavy shelving though
to store the wood parts taken off the pianos for repairs. Currently I am marking
them with chalk on the underside and stacking them along the walls to keep track
of what belongs where. I wish I knew what kind of wood the side boards were made
of. I did save the desk, shelf and fall board. I am going to try to build a
bench out of them to match one of the old uprights that doesn't have one. I did
save every bit of hardware from the piano, the keys (not sure why but they might
fit another in the event of a badly chewed or broken key), the pedals and the
bass bridge which was in good condition. I also saved the strings even though
several broke during removal. I wanted to practice making the loops before
begining the work on the baby grand.

I can't begin to say how much I learned from taking that piano apart. I feel
very lucky to have a husband who is willing to do most of the work in moving the
pianos, tearing them apart and allowing my to use most of the addition he built
onto the house to keep them in. He does not play at all but seems to be getting
interested in piano tuning and repair.

Judy

philromano@attglobal.net wrote:

> Judy,
>
> You wrote:
>
> >The rest of the cabinet will just be burned.
>
> There is some useful lumber in the case if you can get it apart. The
> laminated keybed makes a great work surface or desktop etc. The back timbers
> are usually quite stout (I made a head board for a bed out of two and a
> piece of wrought iron fence. Looks cool!). The plate might be saved for some
> musically related art project (see November 1995 Journal cover photo)! Of
> course your problem (it sure is mine!) might be sufficient storage space for
> all these things.
>
> Phil Romano
> Myrtle Beach, SC