Peanuts, Lucy, Piano...a question

My mom just called me and asked me to find out when it was that Lucy threw Schroeder’s piano into the sewer and instead of getting mad, he just got another one from his closet full of pianos.
I found the strip from October 1974 but he doesn’t get it from a closet. He plays it IN the sewer and then after it washes out to sea, he calls to order a new one.

It was only then that my mom told me they were looking for animated Peanuts, not the strip.

So, do any of you know at what point in the animated cartoons it was revealed that Schroeder had a closet full of pianos?

If I recall correctly, it isn’t that he has a closet full of pianos, he has a closet full of busts of Ludwig van Beethoven. When Lucy smashes his bust with a baseball bat, he just goes to the closet to get another.

That was what I recall as well but Wiki says he had both. I couldn’t find anything though so I’m hoping someone here has the real answer.

The closet full of busts is one I remember from a 3-D Viewmaster of Peanuts that I had in the 1970s. They weren’t cartoons, but looked like those Rankin-Bass stop motion figures (only these weren’t in motion, just on Viewmaster slides).

Not answering your question 'cause I don’t know the animated specials as well as the strip, but I just thought I’d mention that not only did Lucy fling his piano down the sewer, she also tossed it up into Charlie Brown’s nemesis – the Kite-Eating Tree. Which naturally chomped the thing down.

As a side note, I think one of my favorite moments re: Schroeder’s piano is an early strip (must be early- to mid-fifties – Schroeder wasn’t still a toddler but he hadn’t been, um, SORASed* to be closer to Charlie Brown’s age yet) where Charlie Brown is listening to Schroeder play some incredibly complex piece. After a couple of panels CB says, “Beautiful! But how are you playing this piece? Aren’t the black keys are just painted on?” Schroeder’s response: “I practice a lot.”

  • SORAS = Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome. A common illness usually striking children under twelve in soap towns when, rather coincidentally, the town’s former batch of teenagers graduate from Salem University or Pine Valley College or wherever. Suddenly a heroine’s young daughter Susannah, age 8, heads upstairs on Friday wearing pigtails and floral overalls, only to come back downstairs on Monday recast into a misbehaving 16-year-old sexpot now known as Zan. This despite the fact that her heroine mother had to leave college herself to give birth to her eight years ago and is thus clearly too young to have a 16-year-old child.

Yeah, I remember this as well.