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Clay,

Thank you for your interest in the piano legs. We just sold them last night so they're no longer available! If we ever come across something like this again I'll put up another message.

Hope all is well with you and yours - stay well.

Michael

Hello Again, Hope everyone is well. We've been given a set of 4 square piano legs (1860s ?) based on style and form. These legs are indeed solid (Brazilian?) rosewood which surprised me. At least there isn't a possibly restorable piano attached this time... The largest "beads" on the legs ...

Clay, Barry, Randy and Bob, Thanks for your interest and input in my square piano dilemma. I have found a home for the piano, finally. As several of you had suggested the lid was not solid planks. The veneer artist who made the lid did an amazing job of lining up grain directions, etc. Investigation...

Always good to be portable. The materials we're pulling out of the uprights work for building folk instruments like mountain dulcimers, hammered dulcimers, etc. The soundboard isn't thick/wide enough to resaw book matched guitar tops; most customers want the book match look although sonically it's n...

Hi Barry,

I'll post additional photos of the top to the transition to the end grain in the next day or two. Thanks for your interest. I'm starting to dismantle today and it's kind of sad.

Michael

Hi Clay, I appreciate your concern and suggestions regarding the instrument. I have considered turning it into a desk or other furniture but I have several volunteers waiting to continue our mission. I've spent almost 2 months trying to do the right thing and the universe has not been cooperating. I...

Thanks Barry. I can only hope that these materials can continue as musical instruments whenever possible, We can only do what we can do and then move on. Stay healthy.

Thank you Clay, I am taking you seriously regarding the lid; so far my investigation indicates that it is solid - I am continuing to investigate. I am finding more and more problems; cracked soundboard, damaged and/or destroyed action mechanisms and signs of structural failure so although it is poss...

Will give it a try. National music Museum is pretty well shut down by covid not to mention their new building opening in 2022. I'll see if I can get a response from them. If not I'll be forced to tear the piano down.

The curved corners of the main case and the direction of the grain indicate that the case is veneered but the lid is indeed solid. I'll need to have someone with more knowledge than I verify the species. Making one more stab at finding a home for it as a piano, but if I can't find one I'll be disman...

Randy, I completely agree that it would be a desecration to dismantle the instrument. As I mentioned we've tried to keep the instrument together as a piano and have consulted piano tuners, national square piano restorers and experts, as well as a number of institutions about finding a place for it t...

Hi all, I'm new here and hope I'm not breaking any forum rules - please let me know the correct approach if I am. I have organized a group here in Olympia, Washington that collects free pianos and dismantles them for the materials and components. We recently collected an 1860s era square piano that ...