The True COST of A FREE Piano
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- Опубліковано 1 лют 2021
- There are more than a few reasons that a piano is being offered for free. Of course, there are deals to be had, but more often these pianos are neglected instruments that have been left in homes or inherited from a relative. There are many costs that you can expect to add to this "FREE" piano. You can add the cost and logistics of moving a piano (700+ pounds), tuning fees (can it hold a tune?), and possible repairs. Sometimes a piano can look great but not be able to stay in tune and keep that tension stable or it needs extensive repairs.
All too often we see “A free vintage piano and all I need to do is pick it up and have tuned!” Unfortunately, these seemingly great deals can quickly turn into money pits that leave you with a lackluster, and barely playable instrument that cannot be improved without an inordinate amount of labor and money. So let's take a look at the True Cost of a Free Piano.
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I have gotten addicted to collecting pump organs. Help.
I got a free upright Rudolph Wurlitzer from a charter school. Definitely more expensive than I thought! $300+ to move it. Then another $300 to move it again! Then probably 5-6 tunings for $500 over the course of 3 years. One regulation for around $85. It's definitely not worth anything but I've learned on it! Still maintaining it. Hopefully will upgrade in the next couple years.
My piano wasn't free, it costed $250, but the guy who sold it to me saved me $250 on what a mover (not a piano mover, but a mover who moves pianos) would have costed. It was out of tune, but I found a tuner. When he tuned it he told me I should get a hammer and tune it myself. Right now, the fallboard is off because it's miss the "hook" (for the lack of the actual word)l,, where fallboard clamps in on the right side. The downweight is in the 55 gram neighborhood, but the tone is SAHweet, but I call my piano "Cybil" because if the humidity or heat changes enough, the tuning changes on several notes, so I tune it like a guitar...every time I play it. But now I know how to tune a baby grand ( J and C Fischer apartment grand 4' 7").
I've seen what they have to do to take care of pinblock issues and my tech, as well as others I've located told me of less invasive (and less expensive) alternatives. But I can't bear to be without it for the time it would take make it perfect. I'm not a great pianist, but I'd never part with this $250 piano even if I found another piano. The heavier action makes anything else easiser to play (except for a Hardman grand where a several keys had missing ivory, very disorienting -and dangerous) and when I can't play well, I can at least make it sound better.
Tuning is a hate/love thing. I hate having to tune when it notes are out and I just want to play, but I love how I get better at tuning and hear so much better now that I know how to do it.
Part of the problem was dehydration.I Keeping the temperature is at the whim of the heating, but the last two winters I've had the room more humid by keeping a humidifyer bowl filled with water on top of the radiator on the other side of the room, and it's been far more stable. I took one tuning lesson from someone here on UA-cam (Mark Cerisano) between what I learned from that lesson and all the others I've watched about playing I've just been the happiest of campers for the last 3 yearsl
I watch all kinds of videos here on UA-cam about history, and construction and tuning and you to a great job. I even watch videos in languages I don't understand. (German, Russian).
If it's about restoring, repair, tuning or history...i'm watching. It's good to hear about all the keyboards that you've encountered and all the manufacturers.
Ted reminds me of my tuner. He's sort of old school. He's tuned a lot of pianos (if you know Dave Frank who has a channel here-,jazz piano, he does his) and actually carries a Peterson, not the app on the phone like I do, the machine, to every client. He worked for Beethoven Pianos here in NYC knows a LOT pianos.
Keep up the good work.
Ha ha ha. I bought mine for 150$. It cost me 350$ for the shipping. 300$ for the first tuning because it needed some extra adjustment. I'm adding another 400$ because I decided to replace all the dampers. I replaced all the punching felt, railing felt, nameboard felt. The next thing will be the pedal felt. Will I get my money back? NEVER. It's a small brand and a 40in piano. But I like to do it. I feel sad seeing a piano unattended. They are marvelous piece of art and science. I'll change mine in 5 years because I want a silent system but whoever gets my piano will be very happy. I almost forgot to mention that my 3 kids and I are taking piano lessons and they are way more motivated since we have a piano, not a keyboard.
Hey, way to go!
When I started to read I was hoping you would say you had it restrung or the hammers replaced, because I got my piano for $250 and even though the string sound fine the bass could use changing and a few hammers have moved. Hopefully my tech can regulate the hammers. He told me I could tune my piano, so I learned, but pulling the action on a older piano is not easy. I let him do anything to do with the action. I just get frequencies in line.
@@newyorkfilharmonik110 The damper replacement happened because I tore one of them trying to remove the action. I tried to replace it. I got the wrong one 2 times. I got a uni-chord instead of a bi-chord. So I decided to change one of my old bi-chord. Over time they compact, so it was not getting off properly when I was using the pedal. The 2$ piece ended up costing me 250$ because I replaced the whole thing. And I don't mind. I'm not rich but I like to have my stuff in good shape and do the proper maintenance. Same could be said about my car...
where and how did you ship it?
@@aarjabmarick9023 I got it shipped by professional. I looked at transportation price as I was looking for a piano.
Thank you for the great tutorial
Great video I always have a hard time picking out instruments
After going to check out ,maybe, seven free pianos people were hoping to have removed for free, driving 40 miles I found one worth taking. Because it it had been newly posted to marketplace and I was eager to take it , I guess they decided it might be worth money and told me they changed their mind . The next one, I found 2 hundred dollars when vacuuming. Pandoras box for certain!
Looks like George Carlin, with John Wayne's voice.
I’m always curious about the quality of those free pianos, not expecting anything, just being curious.
I once got one for free, 82 years old upright, was looking very wasted. When it arrived, the interior was like new and it had been recently restrung. All I did was clean and buff the ivory and the tuner said it is worth around $400.
Sometimes you can find great pianos, I heard of a guy who got a full functional player piano for free. Some people are just in a hurry to move out that they give away even the most amazing pianos for free
We got a free piano, a Heinztmann made in 1890. Solid mahogany. But, it needed $15,000 worth of restoration to make it play as well as it could. Now it looks and sounds great. But we could have bought a decent new piano for $15,000 - but it wouldn't have been solid mahogany etc., etc.
Great video! money
Good job mates!
How about when they’re not offering it just leaving it outside
And uh. He’s right about why and how they’re just like a lost cause. But no. Intended user
Biased content
I was thinking that. Piano salesmen saying you should get a "free" piano.