wood storage dilemma

[patriarch]

"Mike in Mystic" wrote in news:HUAoc.3471$ [e-mail]:

Amen to the reasoning with her comment. But that's another topic...

More on topic is the storage of the piano in an environment where the temperature and the humidity can vary widely. Before you invest too heavily in restoration, room additions or, more important to the current discussions, storage space in the shop, I'd invest in a visit from a competent piano tuner/technician.

The one we have charges maybe $100 to come and visit, tune and advise on the state of our instrument. He's quite helpful, and everything always sounds better after he's been here (generally annually), for maybe the last

25 years.

Check with a college, or community orchestra or similar for a recommendation, and get the piece evaluated. The outcome will likely be either more effort and expense in the short run, or much less effort and expense in the long run.

Or, you may be dealing with, as one of my sisters puts it, "purely sedimental value".

Patriarch

[Bob Haar]

Why don't you help her with the refinishing. If you do a good job, she will want to get the piano out of the shop into the main house.

[Charles Erskine]

L. Francis Herreshoff wrote a book about wooden boats in which one home boatbuilder stored wood in his shop's attic. As I recall, he had installed a trap door in the attic floor so that a board came in the end door of the shop and had a straight shot up to the attic through the trap door.

When lumber was needed, the boards were fed down through the same trap door, passing temporarily out through the shop's end door until the upper end cleared the trap door and then carried horizontally into the work area.

[Robert Bonomi]

That puts an *entirely* different perspective on things.

Have you considered putting the _piano_ in the attic storage?

[Richard Cline]

Perhaps one of those rental storage lockers would be suitable for the piano. Assuming you can make a solid case for needing the space, it would allow you wife to keep possession of the piano and you both get what you want. At the same time it does put a dollar premium on continued ownership that may eventually tip the scales of continued ownership. It is another way for you to assign a value to the area in your shop.

Dick

[Larry Kraus]

Sounds like an excuse to get a nice wench....

You don't have a storage problem, your wife does.