Getting rid of a piano.

[Mary Fisher]

[Cicero]

================================== There's a DIY video on the subject of moving pianos - courtesy of Laurel and Hardy.

Cic.

[Bill]

In message , George writes

Our black iron-framed one was heavy. The woodwork included some very heavy blocks. The second one was a lot lighter with its wood frame. We are all more or less ground level, and professional removal men had no trouble with either. They just put their 'dolly' (is it called) at the right place and rocked the instrument back and forward to jump uo small steps.

The glue was what failed in the heavy black one. I just had to jack it up and re-glue blocks together. Then a few weeks settle down and get somone to tune it.

The OP seemed to be saying that his piano was in tune and had been 'serviced'. We have some keyboard type things here, and they are not the same. We can't afford anything anywhere near as good as our free piano.

[Dave Liquorice]

Operative words being "proper speakers" and not forgetting a decent amp =

with a fair bit of umph. Some modern electronic "pianos" don't sound to =

bad but I still much prefer the sound of the real thing. Each instrument= is an individual, with their own tone and nuances. Not some every note perfect thing.

[Dave Liquorice]

Roughly a couple of cwt say 100kg. If you have a strong enough dolly they are not difficult to move, just heavy. I'd not like to deal with stairs though.

[dennis]

You have just shown that you have never heard a decent digital piano.

[dennis]

I'll put my daughters korg against an upright any day. And then she can switch it to an organ or connect it to my Yamaha sound module and choose one (or more) of a couple of thousands sounds.

[Andy Dingley]

Go on then, what does make a suspension bridge a suspension bridge?

[geoff]

In message , "dennis@home" writes

That's because you are a mong with no understanding of why it can never be as good as a decent piano where a piano is required

A piano is not an organ

[geoff]

In message , "dennis@home" writes

I've played lots of them (decent ones, that is)

more than you have, that's for sure

[dennis]

You suspend the deck, the one the myth busters built didn't suspend the deck. You don't get the same resonances out of a welded wire frame thing that they built as you do out of a suspension bridge so the whole thing was an exercise in how not to do it.

PS why do you need to ask such a stupid question anyway, its obvious.

[Andy Dingley]

Because I don't believe for a moment that your understanding can be any greater than that of the producers of a TV program.

...And you know how much I despise the dumbness of TV.

[dennis]

That is because you are an old fart that thinks a piano has to be a piece of furniture before being a musical instrument.

No but an 88 key touch sensitive keyboard has more uses than gathering dust on some old junk piano.

[dennis]

But not well enough to notice they are better than an upright piano.

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "endymion" saying something like:

Roll it off a pier.

[dennis]

Just because you are thick doesn't mean everyone else is.

[geoff]

In message , "dennis@home" writes

No, its because I'm a musician and you are not

neither, it appears do you have the powers of logic which mean you should be in charge of anything more dangerous than a soft crayon

Sorry, that didn't make sense in english

don't bother trying again

[geoff]

In message , "dennis@home" writes

Sorry, I can't be arsed to continue futile arguments with a clueless shitforbrains like yourself

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[The Medway Handyman]

Here he goes again, abusing people who don't agree with him - always assuming they understood him in the first place.

Has anyone ever seen Dennis & Drivel in the same room?

[Dave Plowman (News)]

I've yet to hear a digital piano I can't instantly tell is not the real thing. Which is surprising considering no two pianos sound the same.

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