We bought a Yamaha P-125 electric piano a few years ago for the kids to learn on. We just bought the keyboard, figuring we could get the proper pedals and the stand if the kids took to the instrument.

Fast forward a few years and one of the kids is doing really well. However, the base is no longer sold. I bought the pedals before they disappeared too and figured I needed to make a stand.

Looking through the piles of wood in the workshop I found some likely looking oak for the ends – I thought this would look nice. All was fine until I tried to cut mortices for the cross-panel…

I came to the conclusion that this was beyond my skill and time availability, so I found an old pub table top – also oak, and cut it in half.

Doesn’t look very impressive above, but once filled, painted and the ends covered in shellac it looks better:

Interestingly the piano sounds much better on the stand than it did on the old X metal stand. I assume this is because the downward-firing speaker units are designed for the stand.