Beautiful drum.

Interested to see what the fibreglass does to the sound.

OddBall: Pianos are a percussion instrument!

What a great idea. Beautiful job too. Looking forward to seeing the finished product.

Beautiful Craftsmanship Cool1

that spruce when the piano was made was probably more like 300 years old back then only the big mature trees were cut that is the reason even in the 50's and 60's that musical instruments had such good wood it was old growth now days they are cutting immature trees and the wood is not as dense nor is it as resonant the growth rings are closer together on the old mature wood making it stronger and well more better ... :) awesome drum...

I`ll take ya word for it, the same people that convinced me that a whistle is part of the percussion will strike again !!

that's using thee ol' noodle. i think you might be on to something.

if possible, post a video if it. i wonder how it would sound.

Yes, kind of in the same thought of tomato being a fruit.

But the strings are hit by a hammer, so technically speaking, percussion.

I digress...

That`s excactly what I was gonna say, is it because of the string being struck? and not strummed, picked, squeezed, pulled and broke by hand !!

Fantastic work and ingenuity, professor! I'm sure it will be a beauty when done! Will you be using any vintage or recycled hardware parts?

larry

p.s. I knew a piano was percussion, but where is the soundboard located?

( in case I see an old piano at the curb...)

flowers2 Thanks everyone for your comments and congratulations. My parts arrived on time, and I'm in the stage of setting this drum up with different heads and tunings to explore the soundscape so to speak. At first blush this thing is very woody, with a very low fundamental pitch to the shell. I have 2.3 hoops on it with Puresound orchestral snare wires and a Gibraltar throw off. I've got a Remo Ambassador snare side and a Remo Black Suede Emporer on the batter. So far, at very loose tuning this drum roars like a field snare as if it were 12" deep with bagpipes leading you into battle. At very tight tuning it dries out considerably, with a very even feel accross the full width of the head. I want to throw on a Remo Renaissance Ambassador that I have to hear if a lighter weight head makes a significant difference. When I hone in on the optimum sound that I can produce with this I'll try to put a sound file up somewhere. So far, it's a hit! flower