Piano Project

We found an old upright piano on Craig's list for free so Chad and some of his guys from work went and picked it up. It was in pretty good shape except that the keys we in very bad repair and it smells like an old cabaret. We discovered via the Internet that the piano is 61 years old.

I ordered new key covers off of EBay and had my dad take a look at it and let me know what I had to do. It was a lot more labor intensive that I thought it was going to be.

I had to chip off all of the old key material, I think it may have been ivory but I am not sure. Then I had to sand the keys smooth. Next Chad and I (with the help of Google) figured out how to take the roll key cover off so we could get the keys out. Then we had to hand file each key cover to fit the keys and glue each cover and then clamp until it was dry. It was very tedious but my great friend Emily stayed until 1 am one Friday night to help me out. We got it done and the results are spectacular.

We found a plethora of strange items inside the piano once we started taking it apart, A 1907 Victory nickel, a 1914 Wheat penny, a recipe on baking a cake with Swan Down flour, a gas bill from 1989 that had never been opened, many pencils, safety pins and bobby pins to name a few.

I am so excited to teach Paige to play the piano. Once she is board with mom's lessons we will put her in regular lessons. We are all very excited about our great find. Ethan especially likes when someone leaves the bench pulled out so he can climb up on top of the keyboard and play a ditty with his feet.