It is amazing. We have no trouble seeing an auto that is worn out and a wreck go to that great scrap yard in the sky but shed tears over a piano that for $3000.00 can be made into a good $500.00 instrument. Who would want to save a Yugo with 100,000 miles on it that 3 teenage boys had learned how to drive on. Save the action, keys and pedal parts, if you have the room. Save 1 set of ends to use for backing blocks to use to reglue end case veneer and maybe a post or 2 if they are good wood and you can cut pieces out of them some time in the future. If the legs, front board, fall board, etc are decorative you might be able to sell them to an antique dealer. Then take it apart if this is your first junking. You can learn a lot about how the case is constructed that will help you in future case repairs. There is a lot of good fire wood if you have a fire place. Recycle the metal parts you don't want. You can get rid of a lot of aggression if you pretend the piano belongs to your customer from hell (we all have at least one of these customers) and use a heavy sledge hammer. John Dewey >I have yet to junk my first piano (although I have told many clients to junk >theirs!). This is quickly becoming a traumatic experience for me. Will the >piano goddess forgive/understand me if I disassemble this old beauty with a >sledge hammer? I would at least hang the plate on my shop wall! Would anyone >(with a clear conscience) recommend that I keep and rebuild this piano (that >is, am I doing the right thing?)?
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