Odd Query:

[John Meulendijks]

Why don't you put in the quiet time system and mount speakers and thelike?
----- Original Message -----
From: Cole Wheeler <cole@fsvs.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 9:08 PM
Subject: Odd Query:


> 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