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18 Notable Reclaimed And Reused Pianos

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I grew up playing a piano and as one who has moved pianos on several occasions, I will probably never move one again. I even put one on Craigslist and nobody wanted it.. They are big, expensive to maintain and move, plus if you want one you can get for free on Give- Away Sites.  So what do you do with a piano?

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  • 1900 to 1930- Nearly 365,000 were sold  in 1910, according to the National Piano Manufacturers Association.
  • In 2011, 41,000 were sold, along with 120,000 digital pianos and 1.1 million keyboards, according to Music Trades magazine.)
  • O’Mara Meehan Piano Movers said it takes 5 to 10 pianos a month to the debris transfer site here (Source)
  • Beethoven Pianos, a restorer, renter, mover and dealer in New York, has a 34,000-square-foot warehouse at the base of the Third Avenue Bridge in the Bronx, with scores of pianos awaiting disposal, said the owner, Carl Demler. “In wintertime we burn them,” he said, pointing to a round metal stove. “This one has eaten many pianos.”
  • Pianos are comprised of thousands of recyclable parts including wood, brass, ivory keys can be resold, the strings can be reused

Ways to Reuse or Recycle Pianos

1.) First see if you can donate.

2.) See if you can give away

3.) Many of the old pianos have great wood, and can be reused in various projects.

4.) Steve’s Piano Service will buy and sell used Piano parts.

5.) Piano Benches can be reused as coffee tables, bedside tables.

6.) Ivory keys can be used in all sorts of artwork

7.) Piano Strings are being used in jewelry Creation See link

8.) Make a Piano Planters

 

9.) Make Piano Waterfalls

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10.) Make Piano Bookshelves

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11.) Mailboxes

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12.) Piano Cars

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13.) Piano Tables

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14.) Piano Beds

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15.) Piano Bars

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16.) Piano Desks

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17.) Piano Shelving

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18.) Piano Aquarium

 

You can see more music and instruments recycling ideas on our PinBoard.  

Sources

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  1. I had a idea for a eating bar. Take a upright piano, cut off above the keys so that they are still there and mount a granite top.

    My wife wouldn’t go with it so it was never accomplished.

    Lovely phots above.!

  2. Pianos are passe. Pianos are merely cantankerous dust catchers great for disturbing a household with egregious noise. My family owned a piano and I hated it. It was left up to me to liquidate the contents of my family home after my father died that included trying to sell (give away) a 45 year old Yamaha baby grand piano that was valueless upon appraisal. I couldn’t even give the dang thing away at the estate sale! And there was a good turn out at my estate sale. Heck I was able to sell a 1950’s music box whiskey bottle for $60.00 let alone trying to give away a working baby grand piano. It just goes to show you that virtually no one wants pianos anymore. Since I had no sentiment for this piano, and since it wasn’t desirable to anyone else, I broke out the old sledgehammer and axe and within an hour and a half the piano was in “bite size” pieces. I thought it would be more difficult to break down a piano but with some hefty whacks it broke down pretty easily.

  3. I am profoundly disgusted with what you have done to these instruments. They were crafted for musicians and should be making music or, at least, being disassembled for parts.
    I am a professional musician who has relocated, and have been trying to find a grand piano I could afford for months. I would be willing to pay to have it shipped and would prefer to save one which is in decent shape from being turned into a garden ornament.
    Do not forget that destruction leaves a void.
    Charles McCulloch.