Is it possible, certainly. In all likelyhood doing such a project would be totaly economically unjustified. There are numerous "digital grands" out there to choose from in a variety qualities and features. As an electronic instrument the sound quality would be the same. By the time you buy a keyboard, modify the case including cosmetics, purchase speakers and install them, and rig the pedals so that they interface with the keyboard, I think you will find that you have spent most of what it would cost to purchase a new instrument built specifically as a digital grand. Furthermore you may run into warranty problems should anything go wrong with the keyboard. My suggestion is to forget it. If the customer wants a digital grand piano, tell them to buy a digital grand piano. Rob Goodale, RPT Las Vegas, NV Cole Wheeler wrote: > Hello- > > I joined this list for the specific purpose of posting the one question > which will follow. The concept involved in this question will undoubtedly > make some of the members of this forum squirm and shudder with the revulsion > one of our Puritan forefathers might experience upon viewing the South Park > movie. That said, here's my question: > Has anyone heard of or know of any resources regarding 'retrofitting' an > apartment-sized baby grand body with an electronic, fully weighted, 88 key > keyboard, amp and speakers? > The piano in question is of almost no consequence; a Heller brand (the > company made furniture, not instruments) apartment baby grand that has seen > much climatic abuse and four boisterous children, now adults. The harp is > seriously warped and shot. The keys are shot. The hammers are shot. > Refurbishing as a traditional piano is prohibitively expensive, considering > the initial quality of the instrument. The box, however, is > lovely--wonderful legs, lovely top and sides. > The owner of this piano is extremely attached to it, for sentimental > reasons only. So why not, I ask myself, gut the thing and put a decent > fully-weighted, 88 key electronic keyboard with an amp and some speakers > inside? A 'virtual' piano, if you will. > > Please refrain from responding if all you have to offer is a moral diatribe > on the heresy I have proposed. If you've ever heard of anyone else doing > this, however, please forward any and all information you may have. > > Most appreciatively, > > Cole Wheeler
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