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<p>[QUOTE="Ghopper1924, post: 3209270, member: 5170"]We had an upright piano that had been in Ms. Ghopper's family since 1892, a wedding gift from her great grandfather to her great grandmother. Cased in rosewood, weighed about 800 pounds. Needed about $1K of tuning and some new keys. Beautiful, but neither of us play, so it was basically a huge paperweight.</p><p><br /></p><p>No relatives wanted it, and there were no responses for "free pianos." We ended up paying a crew over $300 to haul it out of the house.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thus, as Komo alluded to above, it was left behind in the O.P.'s house. People don't leave treasures behind, but plenty of folks are lazy enough to leave a piano behind so that it becomes somebody else's problem.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ghopper1924, post: 3209270, member: 5170"]We had an upright piano that had been in Ms. Ghopper's family since 1892, a wedding gift from her great grandfather to her great grandmother. Cased in rosewood, weighed about 800 pounds. Needed about $1K of tuning and some new keys. Beautiful, but neither of us play, so it was basically a huge paperweight. No relatives wanted it, and there were no responses for "free pianos." We ended up paying a crew over $300 to haul it out of the house. Thus, as Komo alluded to above, it was left behind in the O.P.'s house. People don't leave treasures behind, but plenty of folks are lazy enough to leave a piano behind so that it becomes somebody else's problem.[/QUOTE]
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