Where to look for a...piano, a knackered one will do

[theironduke]

An old upright one, the sort that people can't get rid of for love nor money and house clearers have to pay to dispose of. Where do they go?! Looked on fleabay and there are a couple of local ones but they are with 99p starts! I want free dammit! Just disposing of the thing should be service enough!! Any ideas?

[boxst]

I got mine from Freecycle. There were quite a few that appear on there regularly.

I paid someone (a piano mover (who knew such people existed!)) about £80 to pick up and deliver to my house.

[z4chris99]

if you had asked last week you could have had mine.. but I've now turned it into firewood

[gog440]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Skerratt-Chudley-Upright...

With thanks to Matt777 who posted it in the biggest and most annoying thing for a tenner thread

[mikefacel]

I've got one you can have if you can pick up.

Edited by mikefacel on Saturday 13th April 16:44

[mdw]

Ask your local piano shop. When we sell new pianos part of the deal is sometimes we have to take the old one away. We then have to pay for a skip to get rid of the bits so if you want one most shops would be happy for you to take one away. I don't have any at the moment as we got rid of a load last week.

[Roo]

z4chris99 said:

if you had asked last week you could have had mine.. but I've now turned it into firewood

The boss just did the same with his.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OU2ObU3roeU

[MX7]

Gumtree?

[theironduke]

MX7 said:

Gumtree?

Thanks for all the feedback folks.

Also cheers for the offers!

For it to be economical I think it needs to be local (Worcester) Nothing on Gumtree but just seen a couple on Freecycle, however the site is being mongy and I can't sign up to contact the people!

[Piglet]

If you use Facebook most areas have a freebie site, it's worth asking on there.

[JREwing]

theironduke: If you wait for me to phone my parents, they may still have one.

For years they had one in the garage and were trying to get rid of it for nothing.

They're local to you too. I'll try to report back by this evening.

[theironduke]

JREwing said:

theironduke: If you wait for me to phone my parents, they may still have one.

For years they had one in a garage and were trying to get rid of it for nothing.

They're local to you too. I'll try to report back by this evening.

Why thank you!

[JREwing]

Sorry, apparently they managed to offload it a couple of years ago.

I tried

[Hoofy]

Gumtree's free section, Freecycle and Freegle. Sign up for the last one via their Yahoo group that serves your local area.

[Vulgar LS2]

I've got one (own house clearance co) you are welcome to it but it's in Nottingham.

[sparkyhx]

you usually can't give them away nobody wants them.