Showing posts with label Piano. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Piano. Show all posts

Sunday, September 23, 2012

Piano Overhaul Part 1

When opportunity knocks you open the door right, or in our case we demo a piano.

We got an opportunity to upgrade our piano.  Neither of us play but we are hoping that one day our kids will.  Who am I kidding it won't really be an option for them actually, but that's beside the point.  Our old piano was a craigslist freebie find.  The family that owned it before us were moving and couldn't take it with them. They started their own renovation but I am quite sure this was not what they had in mind.


Avery helped Uncle Nathan pull away the bottom front panel and loosen up some other things underneath.


She was quite happy to do so as you can see.  That helped us detach the front of the piano completely.


She also helped Papa with some very large blots holding the giant back metal piece that had a large part with the strings.


Levi also helped in the back with some little baby wrenches just his size.


At the end of last night we removed a giant seemed to be cast iron metal thing, and cut and removed the bulk of the wires.


My job now is removing the rest of the wires, then next I get to remove all of those pins that the wires were wrapped around.  Fun hey!?  Well, that part might be a pain in the neck but I have a feeling it will be worth it in the end.


Hopefully progress wont be too slow in this piano redo project, but at least we started out with a bang.  Hopefully I will be to report some new progress soon!  Until next time, enjoy pondering what in the world I am doing to my piano.



Friday, September 17, 2010

Practicing

"Hey... it's me. Avery."

"I'm just knocking out some piano practice..."



"I really can't see what I'm doing to be honest."

"All the keys look the same from down here..."


"Although... I CAN hear what I'm playing..."

"...and that DID NOT sound right!"


-Insert Caption Here-

What would you caption this picture?


Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Weez Gots Music!

Thanks to the keen eye of my pop-in-law and his memory of hearing me proclaim that I'd really like a piano some day for myself and kids, I aquired a free (the best price) upright piano possibly made somewhere in the the 1850's to the 1890's for our house today! 10 points to the person who can identify the small smiling person on the yellow cup.


If you are having trouble guessing, you could ask for the assistance of this little maestro...


So, I'm pretty excited about having a piano in the house and I believe I will be making the attempt to "self teach" myself back into being able to play again. It needs some work and some tuning... but overall, a great score. Big thanks to J.P., Nathan, and Brad who all helped make it possible! Thanks guys!