
Dear subreddit,in the family we had an old piano which could not be tuned any more and after seeing https://ift.tt/2YlkYQ8 I wanted to give it a try as well.So I started to remove as much as possible without damaging the corpus. First the heavy cast iron (damn it's really heavy to lift from that height...), the legs and the keys. Next the whole inside wooden parts to have space for the shelves, for which I plan to at least partially use the top lid to reuse as much as possible from the original parts. Now I noticed that when the keys are vertical (which they will be on the wall), there's no more gravitation pushing the hammers onto the keys. That means the keys go in their downwards position but since the hammers are not pushing against that, the keys remain there, as if pushed down permanently.https://ift.tt/2m6gifN am now looking for ideas how to keep them in the initial position. First I thought to lock them down with screws. Thats easy but I wont be able to push them any more, so I am trying to find something which will push them back.This is how it looks below they keys:I have two ideas so far which have both their downside: put some kind of foamy/spongy marterial below, so I can push the keys down and they go up again. It's easy/cheap, but I bet that the feeling would not be even close to pushing the keys on a functioning piano and also fear that the foam might not endure long time.Spings! but it will be hard to find fitting ones and I am not 100% sure how to twirl them around the metal peg: https://ift.tt/2mSBpTk Any help would be awesome! :) Thanks in advance via /r/DIY https://ift.tt/2nK75Kw