<p>I had a to hire a piano mover to get rid of mine. About $300 8 years ago.</p>
<p>We did get someone in our town to pick up the moving costs to get a “free” piano.
i think we did a free ad in our town’s newspaper. At the worst, 1-800 Got Junk will pick up almost anything and find a home for it if possible. You do have to pay them something though.</p>
<p>We repurposed an old piano that we inherited from my inlaws into a headboard for our guest room. The piano was in major disrepair but we couldn’t bear to part with it. We love how it turned out and everyone that has seen it is impressed. A sawzall was H’s best friend during the project.</p>
<p>Where might a buyer be found for an antique player piano that works?</p>
<p>^^ Do you think a consignment antique store would take it and sell it for you for a cut or do they not want pianos?</p>
<p>Or maybe those guys on the ‘American Pickers’ show would want it. ;)</p>
<p>My kid mentioned the other day that they are painting a piano in her high school painting class (no idea why, but there it is). Maybe it is for one of those projects when they are placed in public placed to be played, like this one in NY:</p>
<p>[Pianos</a> as Public Art, and the Public’s Playthings - NYTimes.com](<a href=“http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/15/pianos-as-public-art-and-the-publics-playthings/]Pianos”>Pianos as Public Art, and the Public's Playthings - The New York Times)</p>
<p>We live near the Twin Cities, so maybe it is this:</p>
<p>[Pianos</a> on Parade - Keys 4/4 Kids](<a href=“http://www.pianosonparade.com/]Pianos”>http://www.pianosonparade.com/) </p>
<p>Anyway… not sure where you live, but maybe something like this? Search for “paint piano project” and your state. Might find something.</p>
<p>my-3-sons - can you share directions on how to do this? Since I can’t find anyone locally who wants my piano for a piano burning (look it up!), I’m thinking of repurposing it into bookshelves. I have next to no carpentry skills, however…</p>
<p>An ice cream parlor might want a player piano.</p>
<p>Do you have Freecycle in your area? Try that.</p>
<p>Try the local nursing homes. That’s where my Mom’s went. Two strong men can move an upright, though three would be better.</p>
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It might be harder to find an ice cream parlor than to find someone to take the piano.</p>
<p>^ I asked the proprietor of our local ice cream parlor if he’d like a piano. He said he’d prefer customers. IDK, does that anecdote belong on the “Is the economy improving?” thread?</p>
<p>^ I just haven’t seen an ice cream parlor in a long time. There’s Baskin-Robbins but I count that as a store rather than a parlor. There used to be Farrell’s ice cream parlor and some Swensen’s ice cream parlors at some of their locations but those two seem to have disappeared from around here.</p>
<p>Really, GladGradDad? We’ve got an old fashioned ice cream parlor with Victorian decor and a gazebo, a 50s style burger place with a separate ice cream parlor, a funky tie-dye ice cream parlor and a Dairy Queen in my town, plus a bunch of similar places in neighboring towns. Granted, only the Victorians would like a piano, but after reading your post, I’ve decided it’s my civic duty to buy more ice cream this season…</p>
<p>stradmom, where are you? Wisconsin is the dairy state, I believe.</p>
<p>Offer it to an organization for a sledge-hammer fundraiser. A nearby college frat often raises money by letting people pay to bang out their frustrations on an old car or piano. </p>
<p>Or, remember on Northern Exposure when Chris flung the piano with the giant catapult? It was a community event.</p>
<p>Stradmom -</p>
<p>Yes. I was coincidentally thinking about this lack of ice cream parlors just the other day. I’m sure there must be some if I headed downtown in my biggest near city but there aren’t any in my closest city any longer. I guess people must be in too big of a hurry to sit there and eat it. That probably includes me but they’re good places for kid’s birthday parties and after movie treats.</p>
<p>I guess we do have a Dairy Queen that has indoor seating but it doesn’t seem like the ‘parlors’ that word connotes for me.</p>
<p>It seems that Wisconsin would have some good ice cream.</p>
<p>The best way to get rid of something big is to donate to Salvation Army. A coworker at work suggested this and my old big tube tv(very heavy) was removed. Had I known it sooner, I would have donated the tv and purchased the new HDTV sooner.</p>
<p>We have a recycle place around here that’ll take anything made out of metal including washers/dryers (and maybe a piano with a metal frame inside) and electronics like tube TVs/stereos. They scrap them and harvest the metal and precious metals from the electronics. Maybe you have something like that. You also likely have a dump where you can just take it.</p>
<p>It seems a shame to scrap something like a piano but if no one wants it I guess that’s what’ll need to happen.</p>
<p>You can do a search on this website to see if you have a recycler in your area - </p>
<p>[Recycling</a> 101 - Earth911.com](<a href=“http://earth911.com/recycling/]Recycling”>http://earth911.com/recycling/)</p>
<p>Our local public middle school was delighted to take our piano last fall. They came to pick it up and it was easy. I had emailed son’s orchestra teacher about it. With budget cuts I’m sure your public schools could use a free piano.</p>