Getting rid of a piano.

Smash it up into pieces,I had a great time doing this as a nipper on our old piano...me am wanted firewood for the coal fire as we couldnt afford coal now and again. ;-)

Acoustic sound isn't valued too highly these days

bay and freecycle have ben mentioned. There is this too

As long as you don't ask for more than 3 42" plasmas a month my group doesn't mind. :(

Generally because most half-decent digital pianos will knock spots of A.N.Other old upright. No need for tuning, headphone capability, weighted and touch-senstive action that never needs balancing, portability - and in some cases a choice of piano/harpsichord/organ sounds.

I got £12 for my old upright back in the 70s - it was so knackered I had to have it tuned to Bb. The only value it had was in the soundboard wood.

Regards,

Digital sound is often undervalued by old farts. A decent (more than ~£99) digital piano is almost certain to be better than a 1920s upright if it wasn't tuned two hours ago if its connected to some proper speakers.

In message , Bill writes

Slightly off on a tangent, but just how heavy, and difficult to move, is an upright piano?

My wife would love one (she plays, but does not have a piano), and have seen them on Freecycle occasionally, but are put off by the imagined (?) problems of moving, tuning etc.

Ahh, mythbusters.. proving that they can't duplicate a myth.. not that the myth didn't happen..

they aren't the brightest of people.. they don't even know what makes a suspension bridge a suspension bridge as anyone who watched them make one for a myth will know.

The program can be fun though.

Neither has geoff ;-)

But maybe kids need to hear acoustic sound. It's just musical typewriting otherwise

In message , "dennis@home" writes

missed my post on how I made the approximation then ?

">> all 200 of them ? >not counted them, that's was just my get out of jail free card :-) >

In message , "dennis@home" writes

better in what way ?

I have yet to come across a digital keyboard which can compare with a half decent real piano in terms of feel and dynamics

Give me a proper piano any day

and yes, I have both, learnt piano "classically" etc

About the weight of a car engine.

dennis has just shown that he's not a musician

I cant say how heavy it is but it is HEAVY! Its on castors ( I guess most are) and when I moved we wheeled it in and tugged it up a couple of steps. When I had it originally it took me and one other person ( male) to lift it up 15 steps! It was a job and I was much younger then. My current home is a bungalow so when we moved here it came along relatively happily. However, I know even removers job at moving piano's.

Getting it tuned is relatively painless except for the cost - 45 quid a time.

I really just want to move mine because I dont use it. I cant play. I want a new carpet and cant put one down because its so difficult to work round the piano and its a bit in the way.

I can speak from experience on this. I moved an old iron framed upright with a burly mate for my girlfriend from a 1st floor flat.

They are *very very* heavy.

We used ratchet straps slung around the legs to lower/slide it down the stairs on blankets.

We then lumped it on its back on a trailer and bounced it down the A23 in the rain under a scrap of plastic sheet to my (then) girlfriends house.

She let it settle for a week or so, then had it tuned.

Lasted 5 years with her, then she traded it in for a newer, better quality upright.

They are quite hardy.

Cheers,

Paul.

Doesn't need to be with his £99 keyboard plugged into his surround sound system, ennit?

a bridge is one thing a snapping steel wire is another :-)