"Graeme" wrote in message
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In message , Bill
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Slightly off on a tangent, but just how heavy, and difficult to move, is
an upright piano?

My wife would love one (she plays, but does not have a piano), and have
seen them on Freecycle occasionally, but are put off by the imagined (?)
problems of moving, tuning etc.

I cant say how heavy it is but it is HEAVY! Its on castors ( I guess most
are) and when I moved we wheeled it in and tugged it up a couple of steps.
When I had it originally it took me and one other person ( male) to lift it
up 15 steps! It was a job and I was much younger then. My current home is
a bungalow so when we moved here it came along relatively happily. However,
I know even removers job at moving piano's.

Getting it tuned is relatively painless except for the cost - 45 quid a
time.

I really just want to move mine because I dont use it. I cant play. I want
a new carpet and cant put one down because its so difficult to work round
the piano and its a bit in the way.