[sdiy] disklavier/midi piano

[harrybissell]

It sounds like you were not going to keep the piano, if you were going to
remove the harp.  You might loosen, or cut all the strings one at a time.
Probably that would still be semi-dangerous (if you cut)... but if you did
one each of the strings, then repeat... you'd probably be fine.

Still, piano harps NEED to be treated like explosives !!!

(hope the swat team does not come to my house to de-fuse my piano :^)

H^) harry

Wout Blommers wrote:

> Hi,
>
> About the disk-klavier made by Yamaha, I recently send the complete
> service manuals to the museum "Van Speelklok tot Pierement", which is a
> museum dedicated to mechanical musical instruments in Utrecht, The
> Netherlands.
>
> See http://www.museumspeelklok.nl/speelklok/uk/
>
> Try them if you are able to get some copies.
>
> As Richard Moore already pointed out... Be very careful to do anything
> with any bolts or so at the inside of the piano. I once slept a whole
> week beside an upright piano from which I wasn't able to remove the last
> bolt... I wanted to reduce the weight to make the removal easier. When
> the movers came in, they left the room very carefully and I had to
> replace all the bolts again. Afterwards they told me the strength of
> that single bolt was the only reason I survived!
>
> Wout Blommers
> Musical department Gemeentemuseum Den Haag
> http://www.gemeentemuseum.com/
> and
> http://www.gemeentemuseum.com/gm_site_coll_submain.phtml?parent_id=5