Grand Piano ... getting shot of

[Baloney Balderdash]

20 hours ago, snorkie635 said:

Must try that one on our guitarist. 😎

You do realize murder is illegal, right?

[Gasman]

The axe-wielding bass man could plead self defence after aural assault and mental cruelty...

[Bigwan]

My father-in-law was just talking the other day about the piano smashing competition his students union held during rag week. They destroyed 13 pianos on the steps of Leeds town hall - rules were that you had to be able to pass the pieces through a 9 inch square hole... Team of 4, 1 sledge hammer per team. They were donated the pianos for free by a local piano shop who couldn't get rid of second hand ones. My father-in-law turned 80 last month so maybe this isn't as new a problem as you'd think!

 

Anyway, just last week we donated an upright piano to a local charity shop who arranged for a local piano tuner to come pick it up. Might be worth consideration. You shouldn't have to be paying to get rid of anything in this day and age.

[Baloney Balderdash]

On 31/07/2023 at 22:57, NickA said:

Browsing the piano companies .... Some things you cannot un see ( and it sounds like it looks!).  £13,000 !!!

 

IKEA certainly upped their prices, must be that inflation, but I applaud them for introducing an instrument line.

 

Edited August 8, 2023 by Baloney Balderdash

[Geek99]

I think it’s a huge shame that something so complicated, that only a human has the skill to envision, let alone build, is destroyed 

 

I cannot play the piano, but maybe one day I’ll rescue one and learn 

[Cairobill]

I'm getting more and more into playing my battered old Spencer upright piano (1936). I got it for free 20yrs ago from a work colleague who had it re-conditioned then gave up on it. It just sounds great. I never got it tuned after the last move into my current house and it has a wild and woolly hauntology-drenched sound. They're wonderful things...

And as Rufus Reid says...."all bass players should make friends with the piano..."

Edited August 8, 2023 by Cairobill

[Kevsy71]

I found the remains of a piano buried in our garden some years back - the metal frame was taken by a rag'n'bone man who said buried pianos are more common than you'd think!

[NickA]

have to be a very big hole for my mums' baby(ish) grand.  It's huge.

[Beedster]

Salutary lesson about the value we place on things and the value others place on them. Makes me very sad when I see eBay listings from some old-timer who thinks his old ......... is a family heirloom but which, in real terms, there is no longer a market. The world simply doesn't value the old, the inconvenient, or the unfashionable any more. It's a very sad reflection of digital-age values, and quite likely something that will punish future generations in terms of the sheer waste of resources and associated creation of pollution involved  

[RhythmJunky]

On 08/08/2023 at 09:06, Baloney Balderdash said:

IKEA certainly upped their prices, must be that inflation, but I applaud them for introducing an instrument line.

 

Could you imagine the self assembly instructions that'd come with it ? 

Now where did I leave my Allen keys....

[Gasman]

There weren’t any, they thought piano keys would do the job...

[NickA]

Update. Thread closure. It's gone.  Piano dealer in Cambridge took it away (very neatly and efficiently) for free.

[JoeEvans]

On 30/07/2023 at 23:37, NickA said:

Needs to go.   But how? Bloody thing must weigh half a ton and takes up half her living room.

See also: vintage Trace Elliot.

[Rosie C]

On 24/08/2023 at 21:51, NickA said:

Update. Thread closure. It's gone.  Piano dealer in Cambridge took it away (very neatly and efficiently) for free.

 

Result! All going to plan, ours is going on Friday - being collected by a local church. It's been going to them for six months, so it's been a bit of a saga. 

 

[NickA]

On 10/09/2023 at 12:58, JoeEvans said:

vintage Trace Elliot.

That one I did get shot of ... kind of sadly as I sort of miss it.  All those knobs and sliders ..ahh.  All that weight and inability to play quietly .. not so much.