The idea that people would rather chop up a piano than.... figure out what else can be done with this huge and heavy, but expensive and well-engineered amazing instrument.
Yes, an awful lot of old pianos are lost this way. People don't want to put the money into refurbishing them. Plus acoustic pianos keep costing money into the future because you have to keep retuning them. A piano tuning can cost $100 or more each time. But they truly are something quite marvelous!
I grew up with a piano at my grandmother's home (a beautiful 1850s upright tigeroak carved german piano she got for almost nothing...) and my house (a 1940s old upright from an elementary school)
Tuning/moving pianos is hard/expensive... but my thought is also just about what goes into MAKING one in the first place!! How can I deny a $100 tune-up (just like for a car every year or so) for an instrument as beautiful and capable as a piano? I feel the same way about the way people will cut down beautiful mature trees just because they don't wanna rake leaves/needles. It just... doesn't compute for me.
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Tuning/moving pianos is hard/expensive... but my thought is also just about what goes into MAKING one in the first place!! How can I deny a $100 tune-up (just like for a car every year or so) for an instrument as beautiful and capable as a piano? I feel the same way about the way people will cut down beautiful mature trees just because they don't wanna rake leaves/needles. It just... doesn't compute for me.
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