Props, Scenery, Costumes and Makeup: prop piano

Print Page | Close Window

prop piano

Printed From: Community Theater Green Room
Category: Producing Theater
Forum Name: Props, Scenery, Costumes and Makeup
Forum Discription: For how-to's and where-can-I-find
URL: http://www.communitytheater.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2845
Printed Date: 7/29/25 at 11:16am
Software Version: Web Wiz Forums 8.05 - http://www.webwizforums.com

Topic: prop piano

Posted By: DFTDONNA
Subject: prop piano
Date Posted: 11/29/07 at 12:17pm

I am in need of a piano on a set for a murder mystery I am producing but the stage is not something we can get a real piano up on. Is there a place to rent a prop piano, something lightweight but still looks like a real piano? We can do the music part with sound effects.

Replies:

Posted By: vickifrank
Date Posted: 11/29/07 at 3:32pm

Some furniture places have access to cardboard props, like computers, tvs...I wonder if a piano is possible?

I know that piano teachers use cardboard replicas of keyboards to practice on. Could a frame of an upright piano be built around one?

Or an upright like the one shown in this picture, wouldn't be too hard to build out of cardboard or luan (its mostly square) http://brain.mcmaster.ca/piano/concert.jpg - http://brain.mcmaster.ca/piano/concert.jpg

Also unless the play is a period piecs, perhaps a nice keyboard could be used if the play is more recent than 1980.

Posted By: pdavis69
Date Posted: 11/30/07 at 10:06am

In the past I have built lightweight frames around an electronic keyboard to look like a real piano. This is especially easy with upright pianos as they are basically big boxes but grand pianos are easily made from luan and styrofoam.

-------------
Patrick L. Davis
Fort Findlay Playhouse

Posted By: DFTDONNA
Date Posted: 1/28/08 at 8:57pm

Do you have any plans for or pictures of the pianos you built with the keyboard? That is what I am planning to do but it needs to be a 1900's upright. Any assistance would be appreciated.