Modartt user forum - Cabinet for digital stage piano.

Re: Cabinet for digital stage piano.

2021-05-09T09:11:45Z

Having left acoustic grands behind - and enjoying my digital via Pianoteq - I do miss the shape of a grand piano, fully operational, in my home. But this is never going to happen. Old baby grands become unplayable and many produce an inferior sound to Pianoteq anyway, so they outlive their original function. I would love to encase my DP in one sense, but it would still somehow be fake. It's physically a DP. (My wife would appreciate the absence of wires) On the other hand I would enjoy a restored, in casework terms, of a small grand fulfilling another purpose. Its old life over, the beautiful shape enhancing the house, a reminder of the way grands have enhanced my houses in the past. Probably for books, inside the casework: a coffee table grand offends me in that pianos should never be used to place objects on. No logic maybe but how much logic attaches to all things musical?

Re: Cabinet for digital stage piano.

2021-05-09T02:50:40Z

Yeah, quite sad to imagine some instruments was destroyed to create some of these furnitures. But others perhaps was already destroyed, or unable to recover.

Amaryllis wrote:

Those killed pianos....

budo wrote:

for some reason i find the photos of piano bodies being used as furniture vaguely horrifying, like seeing mounted animal heads or something.

Re: Cabinet for digital stage piano.

2021-05-08T23:06:14Z

for some reason i find the photos of piano bodies being used as furniture vaguely horrifying, like seeing mounted animal heads or something.

Re: Cabinet for digital stage piano.

2021-05-08T19:32:48Z

Those killed pianos....

Re: Cabinet for digital stage piano.

2021-05-08T15:43:01Z

That's simple. You need to find a image host site: https://www.wix.com/blog/photography/20...ing-sites/

Post the image there, copy the link to the image and place the image link (XXXXX representation) in the pianoteq forum, like this:

[img=PunBB bbcode test]XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX[/img]

I would like to find someone who would junk out a old baby grand, like irreparable, just tot take it, put some speakers inside, and place my DP keyboard on the front.

Other people give other strange use to wood of piano bodies:

Antonio M wrote:

I made a mistake: I didn't believe I could do something usable so I half-done the job.
I ended up with a wonderful cabinet but it could have been much better...
(Can we post images? how?)
Let that be a warning: don't aim for the middle! aim for the top.

Re: Cabinet for digital stage piano.

2021-05-08T04:43:44Z

I made a mistake: I didn't believe I could do something usable so I half-done the job.
I ended up with a wonderful cabinet but it could have been much better...
(Can we post images? how?)

Let that be a warning: don't aim for the middle! aim for the top.

Re: Cabinet for digital stage piano.

2021-05-08T02:25:25Z

That's great. I spent most of the lockdown doing woodworking and electronics (and of course music), so that's right up my alley. Here's one of my favorite DIY makers putting an iRig into a wood case. There's definitely a connection between engineering skills and music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlLTaI6z5Xc

Cabinet for digital stage piano.

2021-05-08T00:33:46Z

If you have woodworking tools, maybe you can give some touch of elegance to your pianoteq DP controller:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqVar6e72o8