What's the deal with a lot of abandoned places having one piano in it, generally not in homes but in big buildings! I keep finding them in various warehouses and industrial buildings.

Sadly abandoned places are a good place to dump a problem which is what old pianos are. They're usually not worth it to pay to get it fixed and are so heavy to move you usually have to hire somebody to do it.

Yep. Too heavy. Even free craigslist is abundant with them
Also, there is an old thread you can add your piano photos to: http://www.uer.ca/...=1&threadid=115317

They're a big pain to move, especially down tight stair cases that are often in old buildings. It's sad to see such nice pianos, some even in good condition, just being left in these buildings.

Posted by bmull463 Sadly abandoned places are a good place to dump a problem which is what old pianos are. They're usually not worth it to pay to get it fixed and are so heavy to move you usually have to hire somebody to do it.

Yep, and if you want to just send it to the dump you'd have to pay your local waste management company a fee for large object disposal- a fee which might be scaled by weight. I've found a couple abandonments that are clearly dumping grounds for people with large items (toilets, stoves, etc) that they don't want to pay someone to get rid of.

If you find a discarded piano and drop it from height just right, it will make a sound similar to the chord at the end of A Day in the Life.

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Posted by Radio2600 If you find a discarded piano and drop it from height just right, it will make a sound similar to the chord at the end of A Day in the Life.

If you drive a Range Rover through one it also makes an interesting sound.

Posted by Radio2600 If you find a discarded piano and drop it from height just right, it will make a sound similar to the chord at the end of A Day in the Life.

Not only made me laugh, but also made me think....

A piano is always better than a tone-wheel organ

Posted by Radio2600 A piano is always better than a tone-wheel organ

If you were the ones that pushed it down the stairs, I'd like you to know that that instrument, even not working, is worth a solid $2,500.

If it was fully functioning, which is likely before getting thrown down stairs, it could have easily fetched over 5k.

Posted by Cherokee If you were the ones that pushed it down the stairs, I'd like you to know that that instrument, even not working, is worth a solid $2,500. If it was fully functioning, which is likely before getting thrown down stairs, it could have easily fetched over 5k.

COOL!!!

Why that's cool is a story for another day.

by Dee Ashley, on Flickr

There's an abandoned train in North Jersey with a piano in it. Perfectly tuned too, always fun to mess around with and play some creepy music on while exploring

I had some fun with that piano in Westborough, who knows where it is now.

A buddy and I found fifteen left behind pianos at an abandoned university in South Jeolla Province, Korea.

https://longdistan...university-part-2/

Yorktown by Dee Ashley, on Flickr

There's somebody in Montreal who likes to dump pianos here. Last time I biked around the area I found 5 in that clump of trees.

https://www.google.ca/maps/@45.4856418,-73.5411701,229a,35y,110.7h,38.93t/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en

There's strange and ugly history about that part of town. All the waterfront land in the area is fill. It was briefly used in the 1970s as a STOL airport. Before that it was a massive parking lot for Expo 67. Before that it was a garbage dump. Now it's the "Technoparc". There's swimming pools worth of PCBs and diesel fuel that leaked from underground pipes at the adjacent rail shops over the years. And it's all leaking into the river now and nobody's doing a damn thing about it. You can see some booms and shit just upriver from the train bridge, but it's a joke of an effort.

I have some pictures somewhere but I can't be arsed right now. Maybe later.