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Piano music shelf replacement5/17/2023 ![]() Create structures and designs by gluing key sticks together.Carve the felt hammers into birds, animals and flower shapes.Make a metal sculpture using piano pedals, V-bars, & other hardware.Use pieces of plate for doorstops, paperweights, or counter-balances.Braze iron plates together to make a large sculpture.Make an artistic metal fence using piano plates.Install a waterfall in or over the piano.Place the piano in the yard and plant trees, flowers and bushes in and on it.Remove the plate, install rubber casters and use the piano shell as a stage prop.Using a sideboard or front board as the base, glue scroll work and reliefs in designs for wall art.Make sitting benches out of the sides and back-posts.Use the sides, bottom, lid, and back-posts to construct steps or a ladder.Build up dividers on the bridges to create dividers. Lay the sound-board horizontally and create a table.Cut it down, re-use the wood and build chairs.Remove the plate, action and keys and create a book shelf.Remove the action and plate and turn it into a desk.What else could the piano become? How could the individual parts be re-used? Following are some general ideas of ways to use, alter or convert a piano. Once a piano is no longer playable as a normal instrument, it is time to consider the alternatives. ![]() At this point it would take far more time, effort, money and materials to restore the piano than it would ever be worth for resale. Eventually the wood gets old and mushy, the felts get stiff and hard, the metal fatigues and breaks, humidity can rust everything, and the wooden exterior can delaminate, buckle, split, warp, and separate. There is a point of no return for pianos.
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