Recycled Pianos

[Willem Blees]

Mike



I have had similar thoughts as yours. My idea was to take all the screws and?hinges off the pianos and resell them. If not to other piano technicians, at least locally. The problem is what to charge. Even if you hired a high school kid at minimum wage, would it be worth it? But if anything, you'd at least keep all of those screws out of a landfill.

Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT
Piano Tuner/Technician
Honolulu, HI
Author of 
The Business of Piano Tuning
available from Potter Press
www.pianotuning.com


-----Original Message-----
From: MICHAEL TOCQUIGNY <miketoc440 at embarqmail.com>
To: Pianotech at ptg.org
Sent: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:34 am
Subject: Recycled Pianos






Fellow Technicians,

A receint post mentioned transfering a piano to the landfill.? Does this bother anyone else but me??? (Actually, I don't like taking most things to the landfill, but that's another rant.? On most issues, I'm to the right of Ayn Rand, but on environmental things I'm almost a liberal!).?? Over the last few years I've picked up and disassembled about 15 old uprights, mainly to keep them out of landfills.? Business wise this doesn't make sense, but it's my contribution to recycling, or so I tell myself.?? I sell the plates and other metal for scrap, get lots of firewood for the shop stove, and sometimes find maple back posts!?? Preserving that beautiful, seasoned maple gives me a kick.?? I don't rightly have time for this, yet I can't just let it go.????? Any better ideas for recycling?

Mike Tocquigny

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