Repurpose old Piano

[stroked93]

What can an old upright piano be used for? they are free any day of the week on craigslist. anything in them with scrap value?

 

[brownbagg]

firewood

 

[Buckgnarly]

Be fun to drop one out a window.....

 

[djjsr]

Use it as a key cabinet.

 

[Strouty]

A bar! We started one with my friends piano, but he lost interest. I would love to finish it.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pascal_creative_wood_designer/5172598789/in/photostream/

 

[MadMechMaster]

I was going to say liquor cabinet too.

I saw a website where an electronics hobbyist turned one into a work area that can be covered up for company. I'll try to find it again.

 

[greaseyjockey]

http://www.instructables.com/id/Free-Stealth-Apartment-Workbench/

 

[Lippyp]

Good ones may have a cast iron frame inside that can be weighed in for scrap. Failing that bar, display cabinet, hifi cabinet or even a big speaker box. Failing that a couple of sledgehammers, a couple of friends and see how small you can make it, they are surprisingly difficult to reduce to a pile of small bits, we had to do it as a race on one of those corporate team building type things a few years back.

 

[MadMechMaster]

That's the one Greaseyjockey!

 

[kbs2244]

I think MadMech has the best idea.
They make good stealth work areas for apartments after you take out all the cast iron.
I think I saw one with 2 counter weighted tool boards at the back.
That made use of the vertical and horizontal depth.
They changed the pivot point of the big over keyboard to the bottom and used the back of it for the work surface.

 

[Conn'swhiterose]

Gut it and turn it into a soap box derby car....

 

[ZRX61]

Another vote for a bar

Back when the UK had a navy they used to use them for testing the catapults on aircraft carriers. The oceans of the world are now littered with them....

 

[ArkTinkerer]

Made a computer desk from one. PC fits sideways in the bottom on one side, printer paper in the other. Plywood/masonite replaced the keyboard to make the desk. Added another shelf in the top. Not bad. Not as deep as I would like but it fit the space we had. Heavy as all getout though...
ArkTinkerer

 

[Thruxton]

Use it as a key cabinet.

That's one witty post, right there.

 

[wolflrv]

here ya go! tons of fun!

 

[MScott]

Build a Stealth Piano Workbench:

http://www.instructables.com/id/Free-Stealth-Apartment-Workbench/

 

[Zeke]

Made a computer desk from one. PC fits sideways in the bottom on one side, printer paper in the other. Plywood/masonite replaced the keyboard to make the desk. Added another shelf in the top. Not bad. Not as deep as I would like but it fit the space we had. Heavy as all getout though...
ArkTinkerer

Need to hook the keyboard up to contacts for an 88 key, uh, ... keyboard.

 

[hdshinn]

Stroked -

Where you located that CraigsList has 'free' pianos? I just checked my area (Puget Sound WA) and only a few under $100. I'm looking for something to throw out a window.

(just kiddin')

 

[rsanter]

do you have a trebuchet?

bob

 

[BHR4CE1]

Use it as a key cabinet.

How many...88?

 

[Boyd Who]

Stroked -

Where you located that CraigsList has 'free' pianos? I just checked my area (Puget Sound WA) and only a few under $100. I'm looking for something to throw out a window.

(just kiddin')

Around here people will try to sell a piano, but after awhile they usually just try to give them away. Electronic keyboards have pretty much replaced a proper piano in most households.

 

[ZRX61]

do you have a trebuchet?

bob

Yes, I do

 

[blue dog]

Yes, I do

Can i come over and launch old vises { yours ] at the neighbors house ? please. It's ok, i know the resident deputy in Leona, it will not be a problem.

 

[ajchien]

Yes, I do

Ok. Pic please...

 

[Doug B]

I work summers at a church camp.People are always 'donating' their old pianos (easier that hauling them to the dump). I have burned several. When the strings start breaking from the fire,I tell people the piano is singing its death song...

 

[santagary]

Another vote for a bar

Back when the UK had a navy they used to use them for testing the catapults on aircraft carriers. The oceans of the world are now littered with them....

Out West some catapult them into arroyos...nice sound when they hit and come apart!

 

[patrick66]

I saw one converted to an aquarium. Looked pretty cool!

 

[rwhite692]

Get one and take piano lessons.

 

[toolmiser]

I saw one used for a gun cabinet. Pretty neat, it had the "guts" removed so there was a lot of room, and they are usually on rollers so when backed against the wall nobody knows it won't play.

 

[carhunter]

I saw one used for a gun cabinet. Pretty neat, it had the "guts" removed so there was a lot of room, and they are usually on rollers so when backed against the wall nobody knows it won't play.

second that vote...but you have to wire one key as the 'secret switch' to release the locking mechanism. Maybe "G" for Glock?

 

[smschriefer]

How about turning it into a safe. No thief in their right mind would ever try and steal a piano. It would require too much effort!

 

[brokentop]

This is our 2nd piano re-purposing into a piano bar cabinet. It was a 1906 Hobart M. cable Paino that we made into Piano bar cabinet. We completly gutted it but it still looks like a piano....

 

[dirttracker18]

The cast iron inside is the heavy part. If you can get that out without damageing anything you can bring it in for scrape. I had to destroy mine to get it out of the basement so I could renovate.

That cast iron piece was more than worth the trip to the scrape yard.

 

[mimulusbug]

Hi dirtracker18,

I have beautiful old upright piano I would like to repurpose into a bar like you did but just don't know where to start.

 

[Steevo]

My wife got a free square grand piano many years ago. It wasn't restorable, but we did re-purpose the legs to make shelf supports, and I used some of the wood from the top in other projects over the years.

Here are the shelves I made from the legs:

I see upright piano's in the free ads all the time in the Sacramento, CA area.

 

[JimVonBaden]

There are 16 free pianos in the DC Craigslist.

Hmmmmmmm

Jim