What a shame. Think of all the joy that piano brought to everyone over the years. And the history that piano has seen. It hurts my soul to this instrument being dismantled.
Not a shame. Every instrument has a life span, pianos last a very long time, but an average cheap consumer grade piano really is pushing it after it hits 50. Good pianos like Steinway, Bosendorfer, Fasioli, weren't either but they do survive way past 100 years because they are worth rebuilding and can be rebuilt because the original materials were higher quality.
@@SamHallas1949 Unfortunately I was on the other side of an ocean and didn't know until watching it. I felt sad watching an inanimate object being taken apart.
I am not sure of laws where you live but in the US, my friend makes guitars and does use ivory. It was legally procured when it was allowed to be harvested, and I assume your piano key tops are along those same lines.
The front edges of the keys were definitely some type of thermo-plastic as they curled up as I prised them off. They also appear whiter than the tops. The tops stayed flat.
@@SamHallas1949 Ivory has a grain like wood and it is very plain to see. If you have no grain it is most like plastic or what they used to call ivoroid.
What a shame. Think of all the joy that piano brought to everyone over the years. And the history that piano has seen. It hurts my soul to this instrument being dismantled.
I agree. But on the other hand, where were you when I wanted someone to take it away?
Not a shame. Every instrument has a life span, pianos last a very long time, but an average cheap consumer grade piano really is pushing it after it hits 50. Good pianos like Steinway, Bosendorfer, Fasioli, weren't either but they do survive way past 100 years because they are worth rebuilding and can be rebuilt because the original materials were higher quality.
I agree. A playable piano should never be destroyed.
@@SamHallas1949 Unfortunately I was on the other side of an ocean and didn't know until watching it. I felt sad watching an inanimate object being taken apart.
Farewell old friend. 🥲
I am not sure of laws where you live but in the US, my friend makes guitars and does use ivory. It was legally procured when it was allowed to be harvested, and I assume your piano key tops are along those same lines.
I'm not sure either. I'll ask the piano repair chap if he can use it.
I am no expert, but I think the keys are to "white" to be ivory.
The front edges of the keys were definitely some type of thermo-plastic as they curled up as I prised them off. They also appear whiter than the tops. The tops stayed flat.
@@SamHallas1949 Ivory has a grain like wood and it is very plain to see. If you have no grain it is most like plastic or what they used to call ivoroid.
The key tops have a very definite grain.
The Ibach firm is far from thriving today, it was terminated in 2007.
That's what I read too. But the web site made me think otherwise. Too late to edit, I'm afraid
Julia Sabine Ibach took control of the firm in 2003 en had to let it go 3 years later. Piano manufacturing in Europe is just not lucrative anymore.