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   Hello Shawn!   
      
   ** On Sunday 14.03.21 - 07:59, you wrote to me:   
      
    AA>> I have an old upright oak piano, never tuned for over 20   
    AA>> years and never played (primarily by me) for as long.   
    AA>> Maybe easier to rip that apart for wood than to try an   
    AA>> move it out of the house.   
      
    SH>   It probably would be easier yes.  The trick to get rid of   
    SH>   it is to find someone to take it for free if they move   
    SH>   it.  That's how mom got rid of hers.   
      
   The problem is that there seems to be no local market for these     
   beasts.  Even one local church has THREE old uprights in     
   storage!  So, even if I offered it up for free, there would be     
   no takers in my neighborhood.   
      
   Another thing.. the piano was maneuvered into the house BEFORE     
   the front door and frame and walls were completed. We could go     
   through the front ground-floor door, up one flight of stairs and     
   straight through an internal wall (before all the 2x4's where     
   inserted) and reach the living room area.  Now, it would be     
   nearly impossible to extract the piano via the front doorway.     
   One other way might be straight out the 8x10' sliding glass     
   door, but then there would be a 12 foot drop to worry about.   
      
   The sound board is interesting to look at though. When I played     
   it, I would often lift off the front panel so that I could watch     
   the hammers strike the strings.  It sounded louder that way too.   
      
   The sound board could look cool as a piece of wall art.   
      
   Based on the non uniform colouring, the keys in my particular     
   piano appear to be genuine ivory too.  :/   Perhaps I can     
   repurpose the keys into an art piece as way to honour the     
   proboscidea that made its contribution.   
      
   Yeah... I'll probably strip it down, salvage what I think looks     
   interesting, smash and burn the rest.   
      
   I even have an old worn-out fold-out sofa bed. It's heavy as     
   hell. There's no way I can get that out of the house all by     
   myself either. That's another one I've imagined needs to be     
   taken apart metal-piece by piece.   
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