Having been in the piano cover business for several years, I have had the opportunity to listen to and help produce covers of some very odd types. Most of the crazier ideas come from people wishing to cover something not related to a piano but there have been some great requests for pianos as well. I thought it might be interesting to write some of those ideas down to get people thinking about other great ways to reinvent piano covers.
Dog House Cover. A woman in Wisconsin called and asked if we could make a custom fitted, waterproof cover that could fit the specifications of her dog house. She and her husband were having a disagreement about their ability to keep their dog as an inside dog because of the damage the dog had done in recent weeks to their belongings when they were both at work during the day. The solution was to leave the dog outside all day but she was concerned about the winter weather (both cold and rain) and wanted us to make a cover that would enclose her dog house. We were able to talk her out of it and to get her to upgrade her dog house to one that is more weather appropriate and we did not hear back from them again.
Logos of Your Favorite Team. Piano Covers are great places for team logos and over the years we have received quite a few requests to bring your favorite team right into your living room. We can place team logos directly above the piano keys, on the side panel, or, my personal favorite, right on the top of the cover in the middle of the piano. The logos are relatively easy to have come out looking great because it is easy to get such great artwork. Sometimes we get asked to do some odd tasks like dyeing the complete cover the same color as the logo. To accommodate those requests we have dyed piano covers white and red, yellow and maize and even gold and green.
The Decor of the House Must Match. One of the most often heard requests is because a customer wants the cover to exactly match a portion of a room in their house. These clients tend to not care as much about the money they will spend as they do about getting the look and feel of a room just right. I have worked with requests to match furniture, some cool family plaids, some very large and high-tech music rooms, and even some odd pink and greens to match a little girls room.
Honor a deceased love one with their picture on the piano cover. I have only helped a few people with this request in my career. Through photo technology, we can take a portrait and place that face right on the piano cover, larger than anything you have seen before. The image actually becomes part of the piano cover fabric. Aunt Eileen will be staring right at you every time you walk by the piano and do not sit down to practice your allotted time each day. Hopefully she will have a pleasant smile for you.
Custom covers take extra time and money to complete, sometimes as much as five to eight times what a regular cover will cost. Myself, I tend to like a regular old brown or black vinyl piano cover, but then I have never thought of myself as a flashy person.
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