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Rick Beatification Candidate  |
That may well be true, but in this instance, the credit goes to the photographer, whose name and link escapes me at the moment. (I really should have credited it in the first place.) My talent for desolation is closely related to playing.   But I'm also a Pollyanna. I found myself thinking, "It might be fixable". I've seen its equal advertised with the ubiquitous, "It probably needs tuning". One of the very first pianos I looked at when I made up my mind to buy a grand required miles of driving, only to find what might have formerly been a nice Baldwin R sitting at a 45 degree angle, minus one leg that no one could find. The owner was quite anxious to part with it and promised he could deliver it within the hour if I'd buy it. Even so, it wasn't one of the two I bought that day.
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sat on a pin mary rose Forum Groupie  |
You should have reported the three-legged Baldwin to the ASPCP. Or the RSPCP if you're in the UK, or MWSPCP for your particular galaxy.
These things make me sad.
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The Feral Pianist Beatification Candidate  |
Do they make piano prosthetics?
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Rick Beatification Candidate |
Actually they do. Good engineered transplant bits of all kinds. Pricey though. A nice leg can run upwards of $1000 for "modern" and as much as $3000 for something fancy. A nice music desk (just the prop portion) runs up to $1000, too, if it's nicely carved. I'd have had more in replacement parts than for the piano. I've contemplated installing an open-carved desk on the Chickering since I truly prefer the sound of the piano without the music desk at all, and it's a downright nuisance to read the music laying flat on the tuning pins. But I'm just too cheap. So one of these days I'll make my own, now that I have a woodshop.
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REPEAL THE 16th AMENDMENT! Beatification Candidate  |
Something like this perhaps?
 
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Rick Beatification Candidate |
Yep. I took note of that when it arrived. The Chickering probably wants an ostentatious one like the one on Derick's Bosey, though (
 ). I don't care too much what they look like as long as they're not those modern style straight-sticks-making-boxes things. Mostly, it's the sound I'm after. If I get lazy, I have a friend with a CNC I could have match a pattern, which I have.Just curious, to what extent does the sheet music block the sound? I'm guessing not much if it's a few sheets, but more if it's booklet or book.
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"The Veiled Male" Foregoing Vacation to Post  |
The first piano of 2007, a Brinsmead:
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Beatification Candidate |
Now that you have a woodshop CG?
I would think that those cut outs could be done for a lot less than $1000! I had a tenant once who did wood scroll work. Wish I didn't hate him so, now!!! LL
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sat on a pin mary rose Forum Groupie |
 "Resourceful tinkerer "Proximasolaris" has put together a piano mod that would make even some Samic owners a bit envious. Retrofitting a Korg Triton Extreme, hiding two monitors behind a motorized cabinet, and placing a slew of blue LEDs and other mechanics, he managed to put $3,000 worth of gadgetry into an old fashion [sic] vertical piano. While it is not the first modification we have seen like this, you should still ... bask in the glory of what's possible with a little extra loot and 250 solid man hours."
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Gadfly |
Just waiting for performers...
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Rick Beatification Candidate |
I assume those are some of his S&S rebuilds?
I'll be much more interested in an Overs picture when it's his 278.
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Gadfly |
Yup...
Here's a picture of his number 003  |
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Gadfly |
Hmmmm?
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"The Veiled Male" Foregoing Vacation to Post |
And the "artist" actually SIGNED that abomination! Old man Henry's a-spinnin' in his grave!
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Rick Beatification Candidate |
For the record, that's No. 006 I ripped off for the image for "The Soundboard" above. Figure that if you're gonna steal, it should be something worthwhile. 
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