Topic: Cosmetic transformation for your MIDI controller?

I remember seeing at least one of these at Glastonbury on the TV:

https://www.stevewaypianos.com/

Entirely for cosmetics but quite a neat idea.

Re: Cosmetic transformation for your MIDI controller?

Sorry, a miniature of a grand or even miniature of a baby grand still looks as silly as a stage piano, at least for shows or play on stage, if we imagine a grand piano sound as something majestic.

But for home I would say it's ok.

Anyway, for you folks from USA, Europe, with many old grand & baby grands ruined being sold ultra cheap or even given away or junked, it's better to get one, remove the ruined strings and harp, and refurbish the wood body, add speakers, place the digital controller replacing the original piano action and voilá.

There was a video that made me nearly cry. A old imperial size concert grand being demolished by a giant iron sphere (demolish truck).
Why not donate the wood body or donate to piano restorers, who could replace a unsavable soundboard for a new one, change strings, fix action etc.... It would loss originality, would no longer be a true Steinway od Bosendorfer, for example, but would still have good use for someone or some music school.

Last edited by Beto-Music (21-06-2024 18:11)

Re: Cosmetic transformation for your MIDI controller?

Gutting and converting an old grand piano!
That's one helluva lot of work for many people, not to mention the substantial weight if you wanted to shift it around to wedding gigs etc.

Also to do it well I bet it's much more expensive than getting an off the shelf solution like this.