The most modern piano I own is a Yamaha Clavinova CLP-650, made in 1988, which is 7 years younger than my Realistic Concertmate, 50 years younger than my pianola and 82 years younger than my pipe organ.
Unfortunately it has a load of sticky keys and spraying it with various solvents just made it worse so I'm disassembling it completely, which takes ages because even electronic pianos have loads of bloody keys, and springs, and levers and shit.
@idristhedragon yes! it will work when I finish repairing it. It is repairable and I have all the parts I need now. I'm slowly getting around to it (this electronic piano repair jumped up the queue as it's going to my niece)
https://johnleach.co.uk/posts/2023/06/27/i-went-to-the-dentist-and-bought-a-pianola/
@johnl It will be great to see and listen to when it's finished. I hope the restoration goes well.
I recently inherited my Grandads upright piano, and I have been toying with the idea of creating a thing to non destructively turn it into a player piano. My piano playing skills are very basic due to not owning a piano until now, but in theory I have the engineering skills to make up for it.
John Leach
Nathan