Taking a shortcut through a Capitol Hill alley last month, Amy Moore was both amused and crestfallen to come across an old upright piano pushed up against a brick wall with the sign “Free Piano.” “I ...

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John Ficarra was the editor of Mad magazine from 1985 to 2018. It took all of 90 seconds for two workers to load my old Baldwin upright piano onto a dolly, roll it out my front door and position it on ...

Pianos, for decades, enjoyed a central place in the lives of American families and organizations. But if you were going to try to sell your piano now, you'd be hard-pressed to find a buyer. Pianos ...

I inherited this antique upright piano marked “R. Gors and Kallmann, Kaiserl. U. Konigl. Hoflieferanten, Berlin.” I believe it dates from approximately 1913 or 1914. The black finish was polished but ...

Kenneth Rexrode’s mother is a pianist, but he never had any real interest in playing an instrument. After being strongly nudged to try the piano and trombone when he was younger, he was finally “set ...

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Scroll through an online for-sale site like Kijiji or Facebook Marketplace and you will almost always spot old upright pianos on offer, either for free or for a very, very low price. The wooden pianos ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Janine Gosbee was surprised there were no takers for her vintage upright piano, 'considering I'm trying to give it away for free.' ...