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Kleeb’s Music Center is a full-line music store located in Morgantown, WV. Offering quality and value in pianos, grand pianos, digital organs, church organs, guitars, band instruments, violins, banjos, mandolins, speakers, amplifiers, mixers, digital pianos, PA Systems, PA Sound Equipment, Microphones and more. Kleebs sells new and used a few of the brand names we offer: Kawai, Yamaha, Dean, Viscount, Takamine, Suzuki, Selmer, Conn, Baldwin, Wurlitzer, Everett, Lester, Chickering, Kimball, Conover, Cable. Kleebs Music is located at exit # 152 off I-79 in Morgantown Commons above the Morgantown Mall. Phone: 1-800-221-2645.

Schoenhut toy pianos have delighted children, collectors, and musicians for decades. German emigrant Albert Schoenhut founded the company in 1872, on Frankford Avenue in Philadelphia, PA. Unsurpassed in quality, pitch, and durability, each traditional model featured handcrafted quality and tuning. Little hammers striking metal bars or rods, versus conventional taut wires used in regular pianos produced the unique chime-like notes of Schoenhut toy pianos. Schoenhut toy pianos designed for children, built to endure active play, and provide pleasure for young and old alike.

Since 1983, I have worked full time selling new and used pianos, during that time I have traded-in or hauled away many, many old upright and grand pianos. For several years, I watched and listened as most of these old pianos sounded their final discord during their journey to the landfill. As musical instruments, they had reached a point of no return. Yet there remained beautiful wood cabinets. One day I had an idea. Looking at an absolutely gorgeous and ornate 1896 W.W. Kimball upright that would never again be a functioning piano, I decided to rip the guts out and install a digital piano in the beautiful cabinet. I cut the back out and removed the pin block, strings intact and the back posts. I removed the action and threw away all the keys. Then I removed the keyboard and all the electronics from a digital piano. A month later, I had a wonderful new instrument in a 104-year-old cabinet. This new hybrid weighed only a third of the original piano. There was plenty of room to conceal the buttons and switches for the newly installed digital, and at first glance, it appeared to be a perfectly restored antique piano, that played and sounded like new. At that time, I decided to find a way to recycle the beautiful wood from these old instruments, never again would I witness the undignified end to a long life of pleasure at the jaws of a crusher.

4#  14 wide 10 tall 8 deep 14 keys

This decision began my adventure in recycling of the beautiful old piano cabinets. I had refinished and restored several pre 1970 Schoenhut and Jaymar Toy pianos. I had a good stockpile of salvage wood from the old pianos, 100-year-old, and older. Beautiful ornate, carved, styled combinations of wood. I began to style, create and build new cabinets for the toy pianos, which were in need of more than a face-lift. The new - from the old, cabinet designs depend on the wood, and the parts salvaged from the old pianos that I find to be the most attractive, dictate the cabinet styles. I have kept the keyboard heights the same as the original Schoenhuts but in almost all cases have increased the overall size of the instruments as well as the weight due to the use of the solid core woods rather than thin plywood or Masonite.

I hope you enjoy my attempt at preserving through recycling and creative design the finished product as much as I enjoyed being the creator.

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