RECYCLING AN OLD PIANO

Well hear is a somewhat older project that I'm particularly proud of. One of my neighbors was give an old piano and since she didn't play, she was wondering exactly what to do with it. Since her and her husband entertain a lot, someone came up with the idea of converting it to a bar of sorts. She was aware that I was a woodworker of sorts and had made her a few things, she naturally thought of yours truly. Being a good neighbor and wanting a challenge, she asked me if I might consider taking on such a project. Having never done anything like this before, I gladly accepted the opportunity to get into something way over my head. . . I couldn't say YES fast enough. Well the next thing 
I knew, her and a group of friends were rolling this thing down the street and in to my shop, (garage). I think they had been prematurely "breaking in" the future Piano Bar. . . 

It was definitely a learning experience and quickly became an obsession of mine. I was basically given a clean slate to do whatever I wanted  with no "limitations". 

As the pictures show, I added wine glass storage, countless LED lighting with fancy color changing, below the key board liquor storage, a pullout drawer under the keyboard, (that was kinda tricky). Converted the three pedals to produce separate functions like on/off some of the lights, open the lower cabinet doors and open the top exposing the "harp" and all the strings. I had also concealed a few micro switches in a few places to create different effects with the lighting and some sounds. It seemed as though the more I did the more ideas I had. Finally I had to just call it quits because my neighbor wanted her Piano bar back. I can't blame her though.

All in all, it turned out to be a real fun project and would definitely want to do something like this again. From what I've learned, piano's like this aren't that hard to find and still in reasonably good condition for next to nothing or even free. People just want to get rid of them.