Piano Bodies

[ajh]

https://minneapolis.craigslist.org/r...626792234.html

If any builders are interested, I'd be willing to give a hand in taking a look and help getting it shipped. Potential.

Tony

[oldwave maker]

Made tops for my 2 favorite personal flattops from an upright piano soundboard that had been curing in dry Silver City since 1909. Incorporated a small button below the keyboard into my wife's banjo flange! If I lived in the twin cities area I'd check it out with my sawsall.

[Stephen Perry]

I am trying not to think too hard about an old upright I saw in a private school a short time ago. Most of it is Brazilian rosewood veneer, but the flip open top (upright) is solid Brazilian. Bunch of guitars in there!

[Seter]

If I remember correctly I think Steve Wishnevsky has used piano wood for instruments. A great way to recycle wood and let it continue making music.

[mreidsma]

Zeke Leonard of Salt City Found Object Instrument Works builds instruments exclusively these days out of piano bodies. You can see his work at https://scfoiw.blogspot.com/

He did an Octave Mandolin a while back as part of a suite of instruments for a family that donated their piano.

(I sent him the link to this ad, but Minneapolis is a little far from upstate New York.)