Our most notable projects are our modified piano workstations, in which we transform the carcass of an old piano into a functional composer's workstation.  These desks are equally at home in your studio as your living room or parlor and offer an inspiring, highly ergonomic place to write and record music.  

The baby grand workstation pictured above features an 88 key fully-weighted keybed and houses a mac mini based DAW, which lives in the cavity behind the keys (the new cylindrical mac pro would actually fit quite nicely too).  The computer monitor sits in that same cavity at a comfortable viewing height and folds forward to reveal a 96 point bantam patch bay.  The viewable rear deck of the piano house the Apogee Symphony recording interface as well as a built in speaker switcher.  The front cavity has ample space for added recording equipment (i.e. API 500 series lunch boxes). 

The rear cavity of the piano houses an Equitech power conditioner, the amplifiers for the Pelonis Model 42 speakers and sub, various utility boxes (headphone amp, etc.) and utilizes whisper quiet fans for ventilation.  The original pedals of the piano are set up for midi sustain control, as well as studio talkback engage and recording punch-in.  

These pianos are highly customizable and offer myriad options for locating computers, monitors, speakers, keyboard+mouse/trackpad, as well as recording equipment.  We utilize as much of the original piano as possible when performing these mods and do our best to stay true to the design details of the piece when adding on to it.  The keyboard tray was the piano's original music stand, which was removed to install the computer monitor. We created the custom corbels pictured below to match the details of the piano legs.  

The baby grand is designed to be convertible, and can be closed down to hide all traces of the technology inside: ideal for unobtrusive home studios.  The monitor folds forward, the keyboard drawer slides in, and the top and keyboard cover close down just like the original piano.  

We can integrate any of these options, plus any others you may require into your piano mod.  

Here are some pictures from the baby grand transformation.  You can see that one of the legs had been severely beaten up had to be rebuilt. 

The piano pictured below was created from an antique upright baby grand that had a cracked soundboard.  The case was beautiful and we utilized as many of the original parts as possible during the modification.  The front of the original case was utilized as the desk top of the sideboard flip-top cabinet we created to house studio equipment.  

This was our first piano mod and went through several incarnations, including a deck modification to house Euphonix (now AVID) artist control surfaces.