On Sunday, July 17, 2016 at 9:17:49 PM UTC-4, Electric Comet wrote:
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

Obviously it depends on the piano, but if they are giving it away on CL,
odds are that they did their homework and discovered that it not worth
anything.

My parents had an upright piano for decades, handed down from their parents.
When we were helping them downsize I called a good friend who is in the piano
restoration business. As soon as I gave him the name of the piano, he told me
that it was going to cost me more to have it hauled away than it was worth.

This page discusses the history of piano manufacturing. You can see the
periods during which pianos were mass produced for schools and homes. You
will probably find that the freebies on CL are part of this mass marketed
group.

http://www.cantos.org/Piano/History/marketing.html