I have a piano am trying to get rid of....

same here....looks like the dump

throw it out the upstairs window?

Leave it outside your house , someones bound to nick it. Lots of cast iron in a piano. No one wants pianos these days just too bulky for the pokey flats most people live try those freecycle places or a local church doubt anyone will pay for it.

mayube we could get together Eyeball and set up a second hand piano shop

try websites like Freecycle, Gumtree

post a message see if anyone wants it

ask local schools

Try Chopin it up

Laurel & Hardy

Liszt it on Ebay

take it bach where you got from

You wouldn't believe how difficult it is!

I had to dispose of one when we sold my sisters house.

Part of the problem is moving the thing, and in the end we were resigned to giving it away.

It was a low back, in beautiful Walnut veneer. The church didn't want it, as they had pianos for England,
and dealers said they had no space for it and so on.

The people buying the house didn't want it leaving, and we were lucky in the end to get the neighbour's niece to
offer £150.00 and take it away.

I didn't realise the scale of the problem

The key to this is not to ask too much

Apparently after a few years if they're not really good ones then they start to sound rubbish and can't be fixed.
There was a programme on them and they were mostly being turned into plant pots and things.

I'd roll it down a big hill and video the results.

Would have thought the likes of special needs kids would love to be able to hammer away at a piano without anybody telling them not to put dints in it.

looks like people need to get a Handel on this.

Kissin goodbye to a lot of money by giving it away.

get richard clayderman to collect it

I want to get, and learn to play, a piano one day.  Need a bigger place first, how do you get them upstairs?  Take them apart and put back together?  If you get a good piano tuner in can they get it up to scratch pretty much regardless?  How much is that?

When my dad died I took his old iron frame upright piano to my house. I'd guess it weighed about 250 kg.  It took 4 of us to get it up the two steps at the front of my house. It was a lovely colour timber, and the front was inlaid with mother of pearl. Some of the keys at one end had burn marks on them where he left a ciggie burning while he was playing.

He got it for his 21st birthday.

I got it in 1972 for my 21st, but had already given up trying to play and had been learning guitar for over 2 years by then.

I've tried to remember the manufacturers name, but failed.

When me and my mrs split up I left it there. I never saw it again. Could have been worth a few quid, I have no idea now.

Surely an upright citizen like you can peddle it to someone.









I'll get me tailcoat.

just ask for a score

accept any offers - you'll soon come to an a chord

This might help.

http://www.thepianoman.co.uk/pianos-wanted.html

Rob,

As with everything mate, it's all gone digital now. Excellent sound (sampled from a more expensive piano that the majority could ever afford), realistic weighted keys, never needs tuning, record ability and headphones for quiet practice.

I thoroughly recommend the Yamaha YDP-141. Gives you electric piano as well, so you can go all Elton John on it.

^^Yup my mate picked one up second hand this week, got it for a ton. It has keys that kind of plunk so they feel like a real key.

grand story

What type of instrument are they though

on that note, this is how I reckon rob dylan will look once he gets his new Joanna...

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKF4HfwSsm0

I was thinking more like this :

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLE60Aspsu4

(Monty Python, 10 secs)