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A nephew asked me the other day if I could build a miniature piano that his school needed for a play they were going to put on.

It was a "Peanuts" play and it was needed for the scene with Linus playing and Lucy leaning against it. You can see that in the last picture.

It was made with one sheet of 12mm plywood from Lowes, and a piece of southern yellow pine for the legs.

The curved side just has a bunch of kerf cuts to allow it to bend. It was kind of nice being able to just throw something together without caring about the holes using a brad nailer since they were going to paint it anyway. From many feet away the audience won't be able to see them anyway.

All together it took about 5 hours to make.

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Schroeder my man, Schroeder. Linus has the dirty blanky. Just giving you trouble, Gary.

The first thing I thought was The Peanuts! The second thing I thought was, MAN, that's a HUGE drill or a small piano. Looks nice. Is it covered underneath as well? Heavy?
 

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Very nice, Gary. So do you cut slits on the inside of the plywood to get it to wrap the sides?
 

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Copperjock - your question goes well with your signature :)

Gary - Very cool work. It's so liberating to have a no-big-deal project like this. Stage work, and TV and movie props are often a mess up close. Even when you expect them to be bad, they're often surprisingly worse than that. Knowing you, this is a solid, crisp, clean prop, though. I bet you're the favorite uncle.
 

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Gary a nice piano. What did you do for the keys.
 

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Beautiful piece od stagecraft!

Next thing you know, Karson is going to want to know how it sounds. :)
 

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Really a great job on the Piano!
 

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You're a good man, Gary K.
 

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Rooly rooly good
So can ya play it?
 

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Reall nice looking prop - probably too good - I wonder if you have found a new carreer is prop making
 

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Great looking piano. Extra special piano because you did it for your nephew. Thanks for posting.

God Bless
tom
 

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Pretty cool Gary. I was wondering…in the play are they using an electric keyboard to place in the area where the keys typically are?
 

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wa wanh wanh, wa wanh wanh wa
 

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Man, you must get a LOAD of requests…......................
 

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Gary, this is a nice project. It is always nice to be able to share the talents and abilities with which we have been gifted with our family and friends. Thanks for the story behind it as well.
 
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