I mentioned I am a member of Freecycle locale Brisbane. This is their mission statement:
Freecycle is active all around the world and basically you "offer" or "want" something and put it on the local site. All members get email updates daily of stuff wanted and on offer. Then you make arrangements for collection/drop off via email through your local Freecycle email address.
I needed a piano for my son who has been learning piano for two years and practicing on an electric Casio keyboard. These don't actually have the complete set of keys so he was running out and that limited his learning. His keyboard was doing strange things and we were getting desperate. (He had his tonsils and adenoids out last week so he hasn't played it yet but was overwhelmed at how wonderful it is)
Anyway, with not much hope I put up a wanted: piano with good guts (insides!) as I didn't want to have to pay to move and tune a piano I couldn't afford to restore. Well I had offers of not one, but two pianos. The first one is the one I accepted as the insides were done about 10 years ago but it was never played after this.
And here is my Freecycle piano...
It is just over 100 years old with real ivory keys ... beautiful, no? I was gobsmacked when I saw it and because I know nothing about pianos, I asked the piano teacher to go and have a look for me. She couldn't believe someone was giving it away! It needs a few keys tweaked and after settling a few weeks, a tune also. I could not just accept this beautiful piano so I have a voucher for the lady who passed it on to us. I am so grateful! The mover/tuner/restorer valued it quite highly - what a treasure.
I love the concept of Freecycle ... I hate waste and therefore tend no to throw things away if they are still viable but no longer useful for me. This allows the gifting of stuff to someone who needs and it takes it off your hands .. WIN/WIN!!! I love it.
Do you Freecycle?
"Our mission is to build a worldwide gifting movement that reduces waste, saves precious resources & eases the burden on our landfills while enabling our members to benefit from the strength of a larger community."
Freecycle is active all around the world and basically you "offer" or "want" something and put it on the local site. All members get email updates daily of stuff wanted and on offer. Then you make arrangements for collection/drop off via email through your local Freecycle email address.
I needed a piano for my son who has been learning piano for two years and practicing on an electric Casio keyboard. These don't actually have the complete set of keys so he was running out and that limited his learning. His keyboard was doing strange things and we were getting desperate. (He had his tonsils and adenoids out last week so he hasn't played it yet but was overwhelmed at how wonderful it is)
Anyway, with not much hope I put up a wanted: piano with good guts (insides!) as I didn't want to have to pay to move and tune a piano I couldn't afford to restore. Well I had offers of not one, but two pianos. The first one is the one I accepted as the insides were done about 10 years ago but it was never played after this.
And here is my Freecycle piano...
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| The yellow on the left is the keyboard with the cover and music pouch. |
It is just over 100 years old with real ivory keys ... beautiful, no? I was gobsmacked when I saw it and because I know nothing about pianos, I asked the piano teacher to go and have a look for me. She couldn't believe someone was giving it away! It needs a few keys tweaked and after settling a few weeks, a tune also. I could not just accept this beautiful piano so I have a voucher for the lady who passed it on to us. I am so grateful! The mover/tuner/restorer valued it quite highly - what a treasure.
I love the concept of Freecycle ... I hate waste and therefore tend no to throw things away if they are still viable but no longer useful for me. This allows the gifting of stuff to someone who needs and it takes it off your hands .. WIN/WIN!!! I love it.
Do you Freecycle?
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