I have this very specific thing I like to read which is people getting mad at how hard it is to give away a piano
Similarly, when I bought my house the existing tenants offered to let me have the pool table that was in the basement. Hmmmm! Overly heavy furniture that is only useful for a game I've played maybe a dozen times in my life. What's not to love? I declined. They grumped.
Not too long ago, was on a walk and found where someone had just left an old piano. It was like some hidden family of forest dwellers were making an offering and...no one wanted it.
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A few years ago Neko Case started gathering up all the free pianos she saw listed on Craigslist and moved them to her barn. She made a few recordings with them.
Case has one of those huge, powerful voices that pulls you in and swirls you around, kind of like a tornado. For her latest album, Middle Cyclone, Case filled a barn with pianos, recorded the sounds o...
I know a piano tuner who is interested in 2nd hand pianos. Where are these conversations happening? Berlin?
Is this a genre? Because I'll never forget talking to the singer who breaks his own heart by earning money deconstructing pianos.
Walked by a high school with a dumpster full of pianos. It was a strange feeling.
I know someone who had a good deal on a nice upright piano at a store that was downsizing, and called it off after realising moving it to their family house in the sticks and for someone to set it up made it *more* expensive than the price on the sticker.
It's easy to give away a piano. It's very difficult to get someone to come pick it up...