Electric Comet wrote in news:nmhanr$koq$2
@dont-email.me:

there are many many free pianos on craigslist

one reason i have not used them for wood is because i could not haul
one back to dismantle

and i did not want to demolish it in sight of the donator because that
might induce some shock and horror and rightly so


the other is just the matter of demoing a perfectly good piano


but i do wonder what happens to these

is there a market maybe overseas for pianos

it really seems a shame to think they might end up as landfill


I got a few pallets once, and took several hours to take them apart.
After lots of effort, it really didn't yield all that much usable wood.
It's an experience I'll only repeat if I really _really_ want the wood.

A piano is likely to be 10% wood 90% other. What are you going to do
with the other once you get it? Steel was practically worthless when I
took some pool sides in for recycling. (They were talking $25-50 on the
Internet, I got $2. I just wanted them gone.)

Puckdropper