<HTML style="FONT-SIZE: x-small; FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2627" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7> <DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif">I feel kinda sad for the poor old piano. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif">I've heard of "organ" transplants from the dead to the living but "piano" transplants.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif">Seems like the oak posts would be useful around the house, too.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <DIV>Alan Barnard</DIV> <DIV>Salem, Missouri</DIV> <DIV> </DIV></DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=Erwinspiano@aol.com href="mailto:Erwinspiano@aol.com"></A></DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To: </B><A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A></DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> 05/12/2005 9:58:27 PM </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Recycled Upright</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT size=2><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV><FONT size=3>    The boys & I picked up another free 1890s bush& gerts upright the other day. As I posted some time back I occasionally find a cache of maple in these old beauties worth many hundreds of dollars which I use for bridge caps & pinblocks etc. But this one was solid maple. Yes every piece except oddly the back posts which were oak. Dennis & Jacob  tore the it down to the  skeleton in an hour  & half. The back is sitting out front with a free sign on it.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>  The sides popped off with a crow bar & that was that. This was a true treasure trove of tight grained maple. Street value , if you could find it probably 3 to 400 dollars. my minimum wage help cost me about 60 bucks in labor. It ws a bargain.  Not all is suitable for bridge capping but it is for many other uses</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>   The really tight grain makes the prettiest tenor/treble bridge caps I've ever seen. The smaller  narrow pieces I glue up to make pieces wide enough for the treble caps .I reverse the  grain orientation  which allows to notch with the grain no matter which side I'm  starting on. The glue joints are virtually invisible, if that matters & it's pretty in shellac. The tighter, denser  totally, quartered wood makes for a treble cap with excellent impedance properties.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>  It was fun</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>  Dale Erwin</FONT> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT lang=0 face=Arial size=2 PTSIZE="10" FAMILY="SANSSERIF">Erwins Pianos Restorations <BR>4721 Parker Rd.<BR>Modesto, Ca 95357<BR>209-577-8397<BR>Rebuilt Steinway , Mason &Hamlin Sales<BR>www.Erwinspiano.com</FONT></DIV></DIV></FONT></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>