A month or so ago, someone posted a thread concerned with the use of certain woods and it's impact on our environment. That, and a recent prank shown on the Today show in combination got me thinking. Has anyone ever seen, or heard of using old broken, or no longer useful instrument's materials (woods in particular) as raw materials to build new instruments, like guitars or ukes? Things like pianos and other larger instruments have lots of quality woods as sound boards, or even their structure. Take my piano for instance. It isn't really a "quality" instrument. It is a 1920's era player piano built for hony tonks, saloons and places like that. So it's not ornate, or otherwise considered a "masterpiece" instrument. BUT, it is built almost entirely of the most beautiful mahogany, and have lots of thick, solid mahogany sizable planks and boards. harvesting the wood from something like this could build countless ukuleles. And I think it would be cool, because it is aged wood already. I'm never gonna do that to my piano because it is an awesome working old instrument, but just sayin. I have seen so many pianos scrapped, and end up in land fills.. Are we missing an opportunity?
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