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.
They say I gotta respect the system, but there ain't no respect in that system for me.
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.
"Sorry, I didn't know I'm not supposed to be here," he said, knowing full well he wasn't supposed to be there.
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....
[last edit 3/6/2019 2:13 PM by Mr. Bitey - edited 1 times] Give abandonment a reason for its sacrificial reclamation to nature. Love it. Remember it. Take a picture. Share it. Leave the decay to nature.
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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.
[last edit 3/7/2019 2:37 AM by Cherokee - edited 1 times] When there is tranquility, you are in the right place. When there are no footprints, you are on the right path. When there are no tire tracks, you are on the right road.
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
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.
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