Baloney Balderdash Posted August 8, 2023 Share Posted August 8, 2023 20 hours ago, snorkie635 said: Must try that one on our guitarist. 😎 You do realize murder is illegal, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gasman Posted August 8, 2023 Share Posted August 8, 2023 The axe-wielding bass man could plead self defence after aural assault and mental cruelty... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigwan Posted August 8, 2023 Share Posted August 8, 2023 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baloney Balderdash Posted August 8, 2023 Share Posted August 8, 2023 (edited) 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 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geek99 Posted August 8, 2023 Share Posted August 8, 2023 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cairobill Posted August 8, 2023 Share Posted August 8, 2023 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevsy71 Posted August 9, 2023 Share Posted August 9, 2023 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickA Posted August 9, 2023 Author Share Posted August 9, 2023 have to be a very big hole for my mums' baby(ish) grand. It's huge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beedster Posted August 9, 2023 Share Posted August 9, 2023 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 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RhythmJunky Posted August 22, 2023 Share Posted August 22, 2023 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.... 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gasman Posted August 23, 2023 Share Posted August 23, 2023 There weren’t any, they thought piano keys would do the job... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickA Posted August 24, 2023 Author Share Posted August 24, 2023 Update. Thread closure. It's gone. Piano dealer in Cambridge took it away (very neatly and efficiently) for free. 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeEvans Posted September 10, 2023 Share Posted September 10, 2023 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. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosie C Posted September 11, 2023 Share Posted September 11, 2023 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. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickA Posted September 11, 2023 Author Share Posted September 11, 2023 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. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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