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Offline ironman31

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What to do with an old piano
« on: Sun, 10 October 2010, 12:37:30 »
I've got an old up right piano that's been sitting in our garage for years and I want to do something creative with it. Any ideas?
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Offline nathanscribe

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« Reply #1 on: Sun, 10 October 2010, 12:46:49 »
Learn to play..?

You could pretend to be Delia Derbyshire and sample it, you could photograph it with a pinhole camera, give it to charity...
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Offline ironman31

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« Reply #2 on: Sun, 10 October 2010, 12:55:44 »
its really old, out of tune, chipped ivory keys. Not really worth putting the money into it to fix up. Just figured I'd do something fun with it
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Offline NewbieOneKenobi

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« Reply #3 on: Sun, 10 October 2010, 13:33:48 »
Certainly there must be some way to wire it into the PS/2 port!
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« Reply #4 on: Sun, 10 October 2010, 15:27:40 »
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its really old, out of tune, chipped ivory keys.
Real ivory? Could it be a collector's item? Find the right buyer and sell it for a lot of cash!
All pianos can get out of tune. There are people who tune pianos.
Remove the hammers and make the keys strike switches on a MIDI keyboard instead?
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Offline ironman31

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« Reply #5 on: Mon, 11 October 2010, 06:50:48 »
Thought about selling it, but from the information I gathered: an old piano in bad condition is worth about as much as a piano in bad condition.

Just found out my parents just took the whole thing apart.

And yeah, as far as I know it's real ivory.
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Offline Senor_Cartmenez

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« Reply #6 on: Mon, 11 October 2010, 07:38:11 »
took or are about to take it apart?

In the latter scenaria:

I smell a case mooooooood :)
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Offline unicomp

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« Reply #7 on: Mon, 11 October 2010, 07:59:26 »
Mod it to use Cherry blues or something like that. In my experience the hammer action kills my WPM by quite a bit.
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Offline Lanx

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« Reply #8 on: Mon, 11 October 2010, 08:34:42 »
i got a question for all you ppl, who might know. why aren't keys made more ergonomically? i mean they are laid out flat and you have span your arms and all that and i know and i'm sure lots of pianists complain about cts/rsi in fact they most likely are the first group of ppl in the world that complained about cts/rsi before typewriters/computer keyboards were invented.

I mean airplanes no longer fly by wire, as in the control stick is connected to the rudders and flaps but now fly by laser(computer?) you know even digital keyboards are made to the same long horizontal size of regular paino's.

i mean just imagine if we made ergo paino keyboards then everyone can be like this kid maybe.

http://www.youtube.com/user/Iwillbot#p/u/3/6y8IJ0iL0A8

(Hint, he's playing with his eyes closed)
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Offline lowpoly

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« Reply #9 on: Mon, 11 October 2010, 12:01:27 »
This is what you have to do:

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Offline J888www

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« Reply #10 on: Mon, 11 October 2010, 13:17:28 »
Play it again Sam.
                             
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Treating poor little fleas as slaves is a no no........should hug them, pet them and stroke their eyebrows.
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Offline J888www

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« Reply #11 on: Mon, 11 October 2010, 13:32:42 »
Sad that they no longer spawn actresses like Ingrid Bergman, those sculptured features are difficult to compare.

"Shall I compare thee to a Summer's Day ? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.............."


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Mod it to use Cherry blues or something like that.

Ello ello ello, Unicomp promoting Cherry products ? Seems some skullduggery going on ere wot not........
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Offline ironman31

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« Reply #12 on: Mon, 11 October 2010, 16:37:07 »
I think we are going to take the large metal thing that holds all the strings and mount it on the wall as sort of a decoration (strings attached)
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« Reply #13 on: Mon, 11 October 2010, 17:42:59 »
I swear there is some rule that posts about old pianos eventually involve a discussion about swedish goths...
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Offline itlnstln

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« Reply #14 on: Tue, 12 October 2010, 07:24:31 »
My family likes to recycle:

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Offline EverythingIBM

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« Reply #15 on: Tue, 12 October 2010, 12:17:34 »
Out of tune pianos can be really fun to play, especially for western rag style music. Scott Joplin anyone?
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Offline ironman31

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« Reply #16 on: Tue, 12 October 2010, 13:06:30 »
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Out of tune pianos can be really fun to play, especially for western rag style music. Scott Joplin anyone?


thats what someone told us a long time ago. i think hes dead now
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« Reply #17 on: Tue, 12 October 2010, 14:19:55 »
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thats what someone told us a long time ago. i think hes dead now


And so is Stieg Larsson.
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« Reply #18 on: Tue, 12 October 2010, 22:28:56 »
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thats what someone told us a long time ago. i think hes dead now


A lot of people don't understand tuning very well... originally tuning used to be done in a way where each octave would have unique frequencies to it and not be equal to the other octaves. This made each note have a unique sound.

So, I'm one of the few to jump at playing detuned pianos... don't know why everyone is so negative about it.
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Offline ironman31

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« Reply #19 on: Wed, 13 October 2010, 09:46:32 »
Well when they are slightly out of tune it has a different charcteristc sound, but when its like 1/2 to 1 step off, that just makes it unplayable
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