Piano Guidance
Piano Guidance
Photo: Lena Shekhovtsova
Piano keys in particular are an especially popular, highly recognizable elements that work well as ornaments, miniature art pieces and even house key racks.
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Read More »Although pianos were once a symbol of wealth or upward mobility, they’re rarely considered a must-have item in the American home. Now, secondhand online marketplaces are littered with innumerable free or cheap pianos, often in need of desperate retuning or repairs. The cost to move and maintain the instrument seems to leave few interested takers. Many of these black-keyed giants end up destined for the junkyard. “Every now and again, I’d be driving by neighborhoods and just see abandoned pianos,” says Jackie Diercks, a crafter, in Kansas City, Missouri. Diercks has been reimagining what to do with broken-down pianos for the past decade, and has been officially tinkering with them for about six years. She also repurposes individual components from the worn out instruments. Piano keys in particular are an especially popular, highly recognizable elements that work well as ornaments, miniature art pieces and even house key racks. In Portland, Oregon, Chris Marchini and his husband also noticed the unwanted pianos around the city. “I see them a lot on Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace or just on the side of the road,” Marchini says. “These huge, heavy instruments take up so much space and people can’t afford [to give up] that space anymore.” Yet pianos can have a new lease on life. Creative refurbishers, like Diercks and Marchini, have converted old pianos into inventive furniture and tchotchke ornaments—and they encourage you to play around with the grand instrument, too. “Think about [an heirloom piano] like an old car,” Diercks says. “Unless that car is meticulously cared for, it’s going to break down and has to be scrapped.” To disassemble and upcycle a piano that won’t be giving concerts anytime soon all you need is a few basic tools and a new coat of paint. “You’d be surprised what you can do with Phillips-head [screwdriver] and a flat-head screwdriver,” Diercks says. Check out these four creative ways to upcycle a piano and give it a new life.
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Read More »Chances are if your piano is older than the 1930s, it had ivory keytops, after that are plastic or celluloid. They keytop are just a thin wafer on top of a wooden key, so they can be replaced.
For the most part telling if your keys are ivory or plastic is simple. These below are ivory. Notice how there is a seam between the wide part of the key and the narrow part that goes between the sharps. This two piece design was done to keep from wasting precious ivory. These below are plastic. They are one piece. The newest molded keytops have the front of the key molded into the same piece as the top. Plastics have come a long way and almost all new pianos have plastic keytops. Exception to the rule. These below are from a Hamburg Steinway which is expensive enough to have one piece ivory keytops. Notice the grain in the keytop, which is not usually present in plastic keytops. There are some plastics which have a fake grain but it is usually very straight and regular. Chances are if your piano is older than the 1930s, it had ivory keytops, after that are plastic or celluloid. They keytop are just a thin wafer on top of a wooden key, so they can be replaced.
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