Unconventional Piano Disassembly at Home

I was hoping the piano was going to make a dramatic entrance from above into the parked suv.

That would be a piano FORTE.

I hated this post because I *knew* piano was going to fall on top of the car straight from above. I even imagined the angle. I mean I knew it’d happen, let’s dive into details. Piano falling on things is quite a cultural phenomenon. We’ve seen it few times in videos, but it still shouldn’t feel this obvious on video where it doesn’t even happen.

Followed by a dazed Wile E. Coyote with piano keys for teeth sticking his head out of the top.

Yeah me too. Would have been much more exciting

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He jacked that piano?

but the car is not a Morris Marina

You should watch to the very end…

Do you somehow think you are the only person who watched all 31 seconds?

Yeah, we know how videos work, moron. But at the end the piano doesn’t fall on the SUV so the comment you replied stupidly to still stands.

Upright pianos are notoriously difficult to get rid of. No one wants them anymore so people put them on Facebook marketplace saying “free, you pick up”. I’m guessing someone answered one of those ads without a plan.

As someone whose had to get rid of them. Even free listing dont work usually, you have to pay to get rid of them

any reason why this is the case? they make great photography props.

Theyre absurdly heavy thanks to all the metal (more than just the wires, those wires are usually attached to a huge metal plate) take up a bunch of space and a lot arent even in good enough condition to pay someone to tune. Sure they look great for a prop but most people have no ability to move it between locations even if they rent a uhaul unless they have a group of people

Last time we needed to get rid of one, we disassembled in place. Just getting the metal plate out of the house took two people.

I’m guessing this is what happened here. They couldn’t lift it into the van.

Thanks.

It’s not all upright pianos, but certainly the low end ones. A nice Yamaha or Kawai is still going to command some $$$$ but the type we’re talking about were bought for some kid to learn piano on, probably only cost like $500 at the time and have been beat to hell, need a tune and service and some money put into them to even get them playing well. Very hard to find a buyer for that kind of el cheapo piano and disposing of one costs money so the middle ground is to give it away for free while the “buyer” takes on the burden of removing and transporting it away, it’s a win win. Plus back in the day people could afford much larger houses so it wasn’t a big deal having a big old piano taking up a chunk of space in a spare room. With space at a premium now and digital music/recording taking over most kids would rather learn a keyboard anyway – much smaller and way more versatile and can be used to create a much wider variety of music so less and less people are even in the market for a piano.

> need a tune and service and some money put into them to even get them playing well. Very hard to find a buyer for that kind of el cheapo piano and disposing of one costs money so the middle ground is to give it away for free while the “buyer” takes on the burden of removing and transporting it away There’s a funny parallel, here, with higher end luxury cars. People often wonder why used luxury cars have the worst depreciation of any car segment. It’s because the main market for buying them new is upper class high earners. And upper class high earners don’t typically buy used. So once they get traded/turned in, there’s effectively no market for them. Middle class and poor people can’t usually afford the maintenance items that are now due on them. So they end up selling for pennies on the dollar.

almost bought a Volvo, the prices weren’t bad, but then looked at maintenance. Got a new Honda instead, same price and will last longer.

> Plus back in the day people could afford much larger houses so it wasn’t a big deal having a big old piano taking up a chunk of space in a spare room. all those houses still exist and have people in them.

Yeah but now they’re 3 million dollar homes and the people living in them can afford a nicer Piano than some 40yo beat to shit upright

yeah, that’s true as well. you just said back in the day people could afford those houses, which seemed to imply that nobody could afford them now. my bad

Houses today are much larger than houses of yore.

I’m not sure what era you’re referring to as “back in the day” or where. The average US house now is much larger than what was typical 100 years ago. People now see 2000 sf as small while 900 sf was very common for middle class houses in the 1920s.

Pretty sure OP is not thinking of a hundred years ago, but rather 70s-2000s. Although I’m not sure if that makes his claim any more true.

They probably thought it would fit in that van.

Forget fit, they probably though they could just lift it into the van and realized those things can weigh 500 pounds.