<p>Maybe a tiger parent who has no money would want it. But then you’d have to live with the guilt of the kid being forced to fulfill part of a tiger child stereotype.</p>
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<p>The only way I know is to pay movers to move to storage. I know it is not cheap. We have baby grand which takes much more space and D. is also in Med. School. Upright does not take that much space though. Either space or money, your choice, I do not know any other way. My D. will eventually takes hers, we bought it new, it looks great and sounds awesome. We know that she will pay great amount of money to move it or it will stay with us forever.
BTW, when we changed carpets, carpet company was moving all furnute themselves. Even they would not touch piano though. We had to hire special “piano movers” to move it literally few feet and move it back after new carpet was in place on that spot. The price of this event was $150. Be prepared to spend major $$ if you decided to move it out of your house.</p>
<p>^^ Compare to MDap, I must got a bargain. We moved the whole house contents, 4 bed room house and over 100 boxes, including an upright piano 25 miles away in the SF Bay Area for $900. It took about 10 hours with 6 person crew and two 40 feet containers. We did the packing and unpacking.</p>
<p>A third recommendation here for Freecycle.org.</p>
<p>There is a Freecycle group in our area and it is not hard to find takers for anything at all. You would have to stipulate that you would only give it to someone who could ensure that they have the manpower and vehicle to remove it, lest you get it halfway out of your house and stuck in your back yard or something. But I’ve been quite impressed at what freecyclers can make disappear.</p>
<p>OP here. I called a local junk removal company. They want $350 to haul it off and I have to get it outside.</p>
<p>Please note - Salvation Army and other such organizations (in our area -Detroit) state on their web page that they will not take pianos.</p>
<p>I am thinking of putting the new cordless drill I got for Christmas to work and disassemble the damn thing and taking it out piece by piece.</p>
<p>I will research Freecycle.org in our area.</p>
<p>artlover,
You did get a bargain. We moved D. to small studio apartment last year only 2 hrs away. We paid over $500 for that. But they assmbled some furniture for us though. On the other hand her furniture took no time to load as all of it was in our garage, some still in store boxes. So, you got real bargain, for sure!!!</p>
<p>UMDAD,
Strongly recommend to consider paying $350 for removal. Doubt that you find a better deal. Researching is time, time is money also.
I would do that, but I also would not bother to move upright at all. It is very small in comparison to baby grand.</p>
<p>I don’t have time to check out every link, but you can check it out.</p>
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