Electric piano in a bottle

 

Electric piano

My daughter recently bought an electric piano, which means that I had to put it in a bottle!

I used some walnut strips that I had left over from previous models.

I bought a 5 litre wine fermenting bottle on line and made all the parts to fit through its neck.

I used coloured resin to make a flat base in the bottle on which to fix the wooden floor.

The piano, stool and base were assembled dry outside the bottle and the locating pegs of the piano and stool were marked on the wooden floor planks and 1,5mm holes drilled in the floor planks.

I was fortunate to find a female figure the correct scale of the piano and of dimensions that would fit through the bottle neck. The piano and stool were dry fitted to the wooden floor and the figures’ legs were cut at the knees and shaped and re-glued to the body in the bent position, checking that they would still fit through the neck of the bottle. The arms were perfect as is. The head just pulled off a spigot on the body.

 

Construction.

Three tongue depressors were glued onto the resin base in the bottle and then the wooden strips were glued in place.

Some more resin was poured in around the edges of the floor to seal the side gaps.

A piece of paper was laid over the floor to protect it and the pedal unit base with attached power connection panel was inserted.

The sections of the lower back panel were then inserted and glued together onto the pedal base.

The pieces of the right hand side panel were inserted and assembled.

When dry, the left hand side panel was similarly assembled.

The assembled lower back panel was glued to the side panels using 24hr thixotropic epoxy and the assembly was temporarily positioned in its locating holes in the floor. The keyboard was dry fitted onto the side panels to ensure the alignment of the whole unit whilst the glue dried.

When dry, the piano was now glued to its locating holes in the floor.

When set, the keyboard was removed and then glued back in place and the front control panel also fitted behind the keyboard keys.

The rear power socket panel was now glued in place and the top was then glued on. The stool was now assembled and glued to the floor.

Finally, the body of the figure except the head was inserted and dry fitted to the stool. The left arm was then fitted in place resting on the keyboard and glued to its arm socket. When set, the figure was removed from the stool and the right arm glued to its socket at the same angle as the left arm. When dry, the body was glued to the stool.

When set, the head was inserted and slotted onto the body.

The music stand was now glued to the top panel.