I have only did the one piano breakdown, I didn't ever think I would do one as it would be the last thing thrown or dumped in next to one of our dumpsters. I have seen just about anything and everything that one could put in or near my dumpsters. The best, the trash I like the most is when people throw money away, especially the green paper kind, as I just process that straight into my wallet (people I really don't mind throwing your money in my dumpsters). The worse, the thing that should never get tossed in a dumpster (especially my dumpsters if I catch you!), is dead dogs (that's not a good way to bury your pets).

So far no pianos have been dumped, if that happens I know how to do one anyway. As I have read all the threads about how to scrap one here at SMF (thank you members). A little over a year ago I was at my friends appliance shop, my friend has been giving me his scrap metal for awhile (mostly steel as he sells scrap too). At his shop I notice a old upright piano, Charlie says almost immediately "Do you want it? I'll deliver it free". I immediately say "No, the only music I play is the stereo, thanks anyway". Latter that night I started researching "old pianos", as I did take sometime to record the maker and serial number of his very old looking piano. The next morning I called my friend to say "Charlie I want your piano".

Well it wasn't what I thought it might turn out to be. So I scrapped it, by far the hardest thing I have scrapped. Making me determined to use every part of that old piano. The easiest was all of the coins that old upright had been saving for me (especially liked the silver nickel). I wanted to make a storage cabinet out of the wood and keys, to store my large LP record collection. I was over ruled by the lady that controls my house. She thinks I should throw those old LP's out with next weeks trash (not going to happen). I was obviously not going to be able to build a nice storage cabinet to center piece my vast music collection in the play room. I have used almost all of the wood for other projects and the only other part that remains is the old cast iron harp. Still trying to think how to re-purpose that into another useful item!