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CAUTION : For Display Purposes Only. (Unless you can tune a Piano)
When purchasing a Grand Piano, one often forgets that you must somehow get the thing into your house. The usual solution for a bungalow involves removing a window, hoisting the Piano up and through the window cavity, destroying your
ornaments as you do so. For a flat or apartment, the difficulty in acheiving the task increases exponentialy.
The solution? A Self-Assembly Grand Piano. You simply remove all the pieces from the nice flat packed box that easily made it inot your home, and proceed to connect doo-dad Theta to thingy-ma-bobber Epsilon. Since constructing any flat pack furniture item is mildly taxing on the brain, the Self-Assembly Grand Piano comes with easy 'For Dummies' style instruction, set out in Primary school English with lots of diagrams.
Now, anyone can enjoy the delights fo a Grand Piano, without having to hire heavy machinery for the day.
Maybe one of these peopl know about 'Slef-Assembly'
http://www.google.c...&btnG=Google+Search
For DrBob [[ sctld ], Oct 24 2002]
Don Martin...
http://www.nachshon...tin/html/moving.htm
memories <sigh> - may be gone some time. [po, Oct 24 2002]
Yamaha Disklavier (Ultra Cool) Piano
http://www.yamaha.c...l/?gDKG00002PRO2000
You never need to pay for music lessons again...nor would you likely be able to afford them after purchase. [hollajam, Oct 24 2002]
Yamaha CP-70 Electric Grand
http://www.oceanbeach.com/ebay/cp70.html
Some assembly required. [waugsqueke, Oct 24 2002]
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This is sort of baked. Carpenters who used to make piano cases had to make it in such a way that it could be assembled AFTER it was through the door. |
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Sorry sctld, I didn't get past the first word on this one. My mind is awhirl with possibilities as to the definition of Slef-Assembly. It sounds, possibly, Glaswegian in origin. |
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As long as it is intended as furniture and not as a musical instrument. |
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You mean there is a use for a Grand Piano other than as a giant coaster? |
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followed the instructions [sctld] and with the help of some super-glue, 6" nails and a chain-saw. looks OK but it sounds terrible. |
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To lean on and pretend you are Dean Martin? (Martini's mmmmm). |
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hey you, keep your glass rings off my lovely grand piano. <rubs at mark and tuts to herself> |
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//without having to hire heavy machinery for the day// |
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What makes the unassembled piano kit any lighter than the assembled unit? True, you might not have to bust out your window to get it indoors, but it's not exactly the kind of box you'd be carrying upstairs by yourself. |
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Does this also use the rugged particle board and crappy "strip-out-the-already-mis-aligned-hole-if-you-turn-it-just-a-hair-too-much" screw technology commonly used in other flat-pack furniture kits? |
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I didn't say it was any lighter. |
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It is, however, less awkward. |
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And no, it would be quality made. |
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Delivered by Acme Moving Co. |
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No, delivered by the buyer. |
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I'd rather just have Laurel and Hardy deliver it. Or maybe those Don Martin guys... |
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Can they carry a tune, also? |
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I love Yamaha's Diskalavier Pro200 Piano with the clear top so I thought this would be a good excuse to add it to the links. |
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[sctld] We have an older piano that was left to us for safe keeping that has since been handed over to us. It wasn't kept in ideal conditions before we received it so I don't worry about taking it apart myself to fasten back hooks and make other adjustments. I've entertained lots of ideas for experimenting. One of my favorites is to replace sections of its box with glass or acrylic panel forms and then add DC glow wire to its profile or in combination to recessed ledges creating a color wash. You can see why I like the Yamaha. |
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The color wash would be especially nice for the lower front panel since that is such a dead space of lighting. I'm not sure which material would make the better sound though. I imagine glass panels would not work well unless they were set in clips with gaps to allow air/sound to escape.
This was all really for ideas to put into your kit. |
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Well actually it would be sort-of lighter to carry as it
would probably come in several boxes rather than just
one. Sure, in total it would be heavy, but box by box not
so bad. |
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And as for tuning - check the yellow pages for piano
tuners. There's sure to be one around somewhere. |
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The problem though is what do you do with it when you
move? If it doesn't fit out the door do you have to
disassemble it to move it? You can't just leave it there or
you'll loose your security deposit... unless it's a house I
guess, then just make it part of the deal like the washer &
dryer. And even if you did want to move it, that
build-it-yourself furniture doesn't tend to stay in one
piece when you try to move it. It seems to want to
return to it's component parts. |
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I'm with you [sctld]. modular pianos ideal. Transformer pianos even better. I think it'd have to be a Decepticon. Change into a huge dude with a very wide grin, have to walk through doors sideways. Fey little sidekick with a soft head. |
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