The Piano, Unveiled!

2007 June 24
by Tracy M

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It’s done! It’s done! It’s done! And here it sits, the way I always imagined it could look, in my living room.  It was way more work than I first thought, but it was also totally worth every drop of blood, sweat and tears.  Remember, it was black- with stain, years of grime and neglect. It was so bad someone actually put it out for the trash… and now it’s a gem.

Now I need to get a piano repair guy in here to fix the broken hammers ( I have them all) and give her a good tuning, and we’ll all be able to start our piano lessons.

We had an Elder come over one night who sat down and banged out a smashing, if slightly off-tune, rendition of Rhapsody in Blue, so it shouldn’t be too hard to bring the old lady back into usable condition. Even if She never holds a tune, I will never get rid of my beauty.

Here is a side shot of the wood, so you can see what quarter-sawn tiger oak looks like… lovely.

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24 Responses leave one →
  1. 2007 June 24

    Wow – I BET that was a lot of work! You are one determined mama, with one gorgeous piano to show for it!

  2. 2007 June 24

    Wow! You did quite a number on that piano. It is beautiful! Nice work.

  3. 2007 June 24

    Gorgeous! Good job.

  4. 2007 June 24

    Holy moly! That was quick. Well, at least for those of us who weren’t covered in sawdust and wood stripper. :-) I love the grain on that wood.

  5. 2007 June 24

    What a gorgeous piano!
    Good for you, doing all that work to restore her to her former glory!

    I’m seriously in awe.

  6. 2007 June 24

    WAy to go!! It looks great. I have an antique rocking chair that I bought, pre-kids, with the intention of refinishing. It has sat in 2 garages and is now occupying our basement. BUT. I will finish it. It will be gorgeous. Someday….

  7. 2007 June 24
    moddy permalink

    Your piano is beautiful. It must feel so good to have it turn out like that. Hopefully the repair man can now make it sound as beautiful as if looks

  8. 2007 June 24

    Oh. My. Heck. Woman, do you ever sleep?

    Seriously, I will pay you BIG BUCKS to come and do that to our piano.

  9. 2007 June 24

    Heck, I’ll even learn Rhapsody in Blue.

  10. 2007 June 24

    You are freakin’ talented. Love it. –Deborah

  11. 2007 June 24

    OMGosh it’s beautiful. Makes me want to go play mine :)

  12. 2007 June 24

    Whew hooo! New people! Thanks for the kind words, everyone.

    Sleep? Bah! Who needs sleep. I gave it up after the second baby was born. ;)

  13. 2007 June 25
    Bubbles permalink

    Beautiful!! I can’t believe you did all that!! Amazing!

  14. 2007 June 25
    sahmof3qts permalink

    WOW! You finished it so quickly! I love it, it looks great. Good job!

  15. 2007 June 25

    That is pretty amazing. I can see why they call it Tiger wood…

    Just when I think that there is nothing more you can possibly do to suprise me….. now, when do the lessons start? ;-)

  16. 2007 June 25

    Okay – that is amazingly beautiful wood! Such a treasure! I hope you can get someone to fix it up for you so it will sound as great as it looks!

  17. 2007 June 25

    Well, that took you like, a minute! Very pretty – here’s hoping it holds a tune!!!

  18. 2007 June 25

    LOVING that quarter sawn wood. You’re right, you can’t get that quality today. What a find. Congratulations. I can’t believe it was thrown out either. Most don’t wanna take the time to restore a treasure. I admire and envy this job. Great work.

  19. 2007 June 25

    Curious George and I both think the pictures don’t do it justice, fwiw….

  20. 2007 June 27

    How did you get that finished so fast!!!

  21. 2007 June 27
    idahospud permalink

    Now THAT is beautiful! I envy your vision and talents.

  22. 2007 July 2

    I’m so glad you posted this, I was so interested when you started into the project it’s great to see the end result and wow is it lovely.

    I’m terribly impressed!

  23. 2007 July 3

    Good job. The piano looks amazing. Enjoy it.

  24. 2007 July 6

    It is absolutely beautiful. You did a fantastic job!

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