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6th September 2010, 04:22 PM #1
Recycled piano cabinet
Hi there!
Here's a photo of a cabinet I'm working on at present, made almost entirely from parts of recycled pianos. Its about 2.1m long, so a substantial beast! I posted a while back, requesting id of some hinges I want to use on the centre doors. Looks like I'll have to custom make some, so the doors clear the drawers on each side, which are made from the sound board portion of the piano.
This will appear in a furniture exhibition I'm organising later this month in Toowoomba. I'll post details of that show soon. Thanks for looking
Cheers,Andy Mac
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6th September 2010, 04:25 PM #2
Luv it Andy!
That's a "Note" for all recyclers.
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6th September 2010, 06:22 PM #3
Good stuff Andy .
Have you given it a name ?
A couple come to mind but they are pretty corny .
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6th September 2010, 11:38 PM #4
Well, what are they Ironwood?
BTW love the idea behind the cabnet- good work, if only more of us could be so resourceful
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7th September 2010, 03:38 PM #5
The more I see this, the more amazing it becomes and the more I love it.
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7th September 2010, 10:28 PM #6
Thanks for the replies. It is an awfully chunky looking thing, certainly nothing refined or graceful about it! There was no plan or design, which is the way I usually work. I just use whatever I have on hand, and make do. There wasn't enough of the veneered panels that I was prepared to use for drawer fronts, which is why they have been created from the sound board. I actually like the radical difference between the somber veneer and the much brighter, even informal look of the sound board, plus the texture on the support ribs.
I do have a couple of prize panels left over from a 100yr old German piano, complete with incised bluebird motifs, but I'm planning on making a bedhead with that.
As for a title for this thing, I'm moving between something about Frankenstein, as a monster made from assorted body parts, and a Wagga blanket/patchwork, that making do and stitching disparate bits together aesthetic. Someone has already called it the Cabinet of Dr Caligari, so maybe that fits too.
Cheers,Andy Mac
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7th September 2010, 11:00 PM #7
Looking at it again and for longer, I'll disagree; There is something very graceful about this piece. If I had to desribe it, I might liken it to meeting a very old lady at a bus stop, who has grown wrinkles, has shrivelled and is watching the world pass her by. If you notice her and pay attention, she'll tell you a thousand stories you'd never imagined.
This piece does that, says me anyway... It's growing on me
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8th September 2010, 08:05 AM #8Skwair2rownd
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That is just great!! Tremendous imagination and, might I say, bravery to build such a piece!!
And to think, I threw out an old piano after salvaging just a few pieces from it>
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