# How to get rid of an old piano?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-get-rid-of-an-old-piano/967159>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 30, 2022, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-get-rid-of-an-old-piano/967159 "2022-06-30T01:15:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2022, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-get-rid-of-an-old-piano/967159/82 "2022-10-19T01:32:07Z")

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We have exactly the opposite problem. My son and his wife desperately want our old piano. We’d be happy to let them take it off our hands except for three things.

- They live 300 miles away
- In a third-floor walk up apartment
- And neither we nor they own a truck

They’ll be moving into a house soon, eliminating issue #2, but until someone solves the transportation problem, the piano stays in our living room.

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**Author:** ![tofor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tofor/32/13727_2.png) [@tofor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tofor)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2022, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-get-rid-of-an-old-piano/967159/83 "2022-10-19T12:05:11Z")

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We brought ours home in our minivan. It even fit crossways between the sliding doors so we could just load it straight across from one side to the other right behind the front seats.

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**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2022, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-get-rid-of-an-old-piano/967159/85 "2022-11-25T15:43:28Z")

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There is a big ol’ player piano in the basement of my mother’s house. Been there for 60 years. I need to get it out of there. But the only way to do it is via the steps. I have no idea how to do it.

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**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2022, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-get-rid-of-an-old-piano/967159/86 "2022-11-25T16:16:53Z")

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How wide are the stairs, how steep are the stairs, how long and are there any turns in the stairs. With a player piano, it _might_ need disassembled(it seems to me they’re heavier than regular piano? Not entirely certain of that). A large(sometimes called upright grand) piano might be moveable with sufficient raw muscle power and one of those small “school size” piano can easily be carried up straight stairs by a team of 4 to 6 people.

Call around to local musical intrument stores that deal in pianos, they will have to folks or know the folks with the know how, and tools and muscles to move it for you.

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