Sounds like fun. BUT: > If you can knock the bridge off, small chunks of maple > come in handy for certain repairs. Just watch that puppy if you push it through you table saw - wear glasses and say good bye to your blade! I like the idea about: > Teenage and twenty-something kids who do > industrial/experimental music... What a hoot! Terry Farrell ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Nereson" <dnereson@dimensional.com> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2001 8:20 AM Subject: junking pianos > Doesn't happen often, but I have fun when I have to (get to) junk a > piano. I save all the wood screws, which are higher quality than the ones > made nowdays. I made a hobby workbench out of one old upright and donated > player piano bellows, manifold, and other parts to an artist friend who used > them for sculptures. Recycled the plate at a scrap metal yard. Kept the > trapwork, pedals, pedal rods (dowels), casters, hinges, knobs, other > hardware, soaked the ivories and sharps off and kept them for replacements, > gave the keys to a neighbor who has a woodburning stove. I've knocked the > leads out of keys and used them for weighting lightweight cars on my model > railroad.... pulled keypins out if in good condition to use for odd > replacements.... made a pinblock supporting jack out of the keyblocks and > some nuts and threaded rod.... used the top lids and certain kinds of > fallboards from uprights for shelves in the shop. Made 2 action models for > use at chapter meetings to teach regulating. Have used old hammer butt > assemblies on the jigs for the technical exam (hammer filing, broken shank > replacement).... made a partial keyframe with several keys for the key > rebushing part of the exam. The case I knocked apart with a sledge hammer, > saved any wood usable for shelves, jigs, other projects....if you have room, > you might save the bottom board, if it's not split, for a piano that needs > one in the future. If you can knock the bridge off, small chunks of maple > come in handy for certain repairs. Teenage and twenty-something kids who do > industrial/experimental music will gladly take the strung back to bang, > pluck, drum and otherwise create cool semi-musical noises on. > Just yesterday, a local hotel THREW OUT a baby grand. It was a small > Hamilton, and was in the roll-away dumpster being used by a > construction/remodeling crew. Some musician friends rescued it. > Soundboard OK, pinblock OK, had to dig to find the legs and pedal lyre, top > lid was missing, and it was quite dirty, but heck -- free piano for > struggling musicians. --Dave Nereson, RPT, Denver > >
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