This model on sale...

[c18cont]

https://www.forgotten-ny.com/YOU'D%20NEVER%20BELIEVE/farmcolony/fcpiano.jpg

John

[jeremyjchilds]

I'll get on that one as my next re-build job.

Granny's sentimental piano. 

[c18cont]

Yessss,!,

Of interest perhaps....Can anyone guess the LIKELY basic cause of the condition of this once wonderful instrument..(we assume it was wonderfulll) It is something I have seen in  several in my lifetime...

John

[gkatele]

I e-mailed that pic to my teacher with the subject:

"I FOUND A PIANO!!!"

She replied:

"I'll be fine once you buff it out."   





George

[Barbosa-piano]

 It hurts to see the piano in that condition ... Looks like someone dropped an old piano from the 5th floor of an abandoned building. 

Mario Barbosa

[c18cont]

O.K.

Nobody would bite on this one...

The cause is LIKELY, (but not certain)...To be the dry wood termite...and I have seen a would think, perhaps 5 in my life. They are attacked in old buildings that have little examination of condition, like old out of service churches....

Near me I saw the most difficult case...A small and famous 19th century Methodist church with a fine upright, that was closed up as a historical monument, but not watched closely as it was isolated...at an elevation of some 150 ft, (it therefore recieved little rain also being near the coast in Florida...the average elevation was likely less than 40 feet...) which was an ideal place for this type of termite...

In a period of several years the church and contents became a SHELL...and would crumple upon touch...(It was simply true that NONE looked close enough...as most visits were only to the old cemetery..)..It  was also true for the piano, and I have several of the ivory keytops as a keepsake...It was still standing and looked whole, but would crumple at a touch...

After only a few more years, during which time the board determined nothing could be done to save it...a storm took it all to the ground, and the piano looked EXACTLY as the one pictured....Now only the graves remain, which is perhaps, fitting...

So people...WATCH your pianos....Dry wood termites are FAST, (faster than subteraenean termites...)...and they like 'em....

John Cont

[jeremyjchilds]

O.K.

Nobody would bite on this one...

The cause is LIKELY, (but not certain)...To be the dry wood termite...and I have seen a would think, perhaps 5 in my life. They are attacked in old buildings that have little examination of condition, like old out of service churches....

Near me I saw the most difficult case...A small and famous 19th century Methodist church with a fine upright, that was closed up as a historical monument, but not watched closely as it was isolated...at an elevation of some 150 ft, (it therefore recieved little rain also being near the coast in Florida...the average elevation was likely less than 40 feet...) which was an ideal place for this type of termite...

In a period of several years the church and contents became a SHELL...and would crumple upon touch...(It was simply true that NONE looked close enough...as most visits were only to the old cemetery..)..It  was also true for the piano, and I have several of the ivory keytops as a keepsake...It was still standing and looked whole, but would crumple at a touch...

After only a few more years, during which time the board determined nothing could be done to save it...a storm took it all to the ground, and the piano looked EXACTLY as the one pictured....Now only the graves remain, which is perhaps, fitting...

So people...WATCH your pianos....Dry wood termites are FAST, (faster than subteraenean termites...)...and they like 'em....

John Cont

I wonder if there are case-lot deals on RAID

...I would have liked to have been there when each tuning pin was eaten around...Sproing! it's a war zone...

[pianonut]

this is too funny!

never trust ads in the paper that say 'fixer-upper.'

[leahcim]

It'll sell on Ebay

[nanabush]

Looks like it died, got dug up from the grave, dropped down an escalator, burned, gotten eaten alive, drowned, and then thrown out a window....