Upright parts salvage

[Farrell]

I just made a new bottom board for a 20 year old Kimball studio (water damaged) from the bottom board I had saved from an old upright. Solid red oak and strong as steel - one run through the planer and it looks like new!

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Mulik" <tubist@swbell.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 10:28 AM
Subject: Upright parts salvage


> Hello list,
> 
> When disposing of an old worthless piano, what parts are worth saving?  I've
> got an old clunker of an upright that a relative dropped off at my house
> when I was out of town for the day (wasn't that nice of him?  At least I
> didn't have to help move it.)  This is one of those chopped-down "mirror"
> jobs, with several coats of paint on it.
> 
> I figured on saving the action, the pedals, and the casters.  Should I keep
> anything else?  Naturally, if it had ivory keytops I would save them, but
> this particular gem has all plastic keytops (I guess I'll save a few of the
> sharps).  The person who dropped it off told me that the old keytops were
> down inside the bottom of the cabinet, so I opened 'er up and sure enough
> there they were, but they're plastic too.  Why anyone went to the expense of
> putting new keytops on this thing remains a mystery.
> 
> Paul Mulik
> 
> 
> 
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