6/12/2023 0 Comments Lester piano serial numbers![]() The average life span rarely exceeds 80 years, piano technicians say. ![]() That’s a lot of pianos now reaching the end of the line. Piano dealers also blame other changes in society for a lack of demand in the used-piano market: cuts in music education in schools, competition for practice time from other pursuits, a drop in spending on home furnishings with the fall of the housing market. Whatever the reason, people in the piano world agree that disposals are mounting. O’Mara Meehan Piano Movers said it takes 5 to 10 pianos a month to the debris transfer site here. The company was founded in 1874 by the great-grandfather of the brothers Bryan and Charles T. ![]() O’Mara, whose company tries to give away discarded pianos. ![]() Any rescued piano, he noted, is also a potential future move for O’Mara Meehan. But there is just so much room in his warehouse for adoptees. Churches and schools often do not have room or the means to maintain them.īrian Goodwin, who owns Piano Movers of Nashua, N.H., and who had 30 pianos in his warehouse ready for the dump recently, said he created the Web site Piano Adoption partly as a clearing house to find homes for unwanted pianos. He posted the video of the dumped pianos that drew such shocked responses.
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