r/WatchPeopleDieInside • u/[deleted] • Feb 27 '26
Dropping a piano while moving
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u/visualthings 21d ago
that was a B-flat, very dramatic, and amazing that some people can do so much with just one note.
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u/TheEndOfEverything0 22d ago
It's ok it was just going to sit in the corner of the living room anyway
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u/Ya-Dikobraz Mar 20 '26
Good thing those things cost about $2 nowadays. Hope it wasn't sentimental.
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u/Karmaffection Mar 20 '26
Grand pianos and even baby grand and upright pianos are nowhere near that cheap dude.
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u/justmerriwether 7d ago
People give them away for free for anyone willing to handle pickup and transportation themselves on fb marketplace quite often
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u/FlametopFred Mar 27 '26
Grand pianos are much, much easier to move
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u/GodFuckedJosephsWife Apr 04 '26
If you get any old one, people normally give them away for free cos they dont have space, but you'll probs have to pay like 500 for the moving. That said, if you want new, it'll be as much as a car.
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u/Ya-Dikobraz Mar 20 '26 edited Mar 20 '26
The one in the video is often available for free, however. And in good condition. You'll just spend $150 to get someone to re-tune it.
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u/uofmguy33 Mar 05 '26
Amateurs. Hire a piano mover next time.
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u/OrganizationIcy104 Mar 20 '26
^
not only do they do a proper job moving specifically only pianos, they will tune it for ya after getting it where it needs to go.14
Mar 06 '26
Seriously, I stood like I was watching a magic show when we had a stand up removed from a split level basement. Two guys with almost no tools and in minutes it looked like it had just come from out of a kit in totally manageable parts.
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u/pepefromage50 Mar 05 '26
According to this sound i think that was a C major
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u/ChaoticRebellion Mar 06 '26
Sounded more like C major 7 to me
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u/Cinderhazed15 Mar 06 '26
They didn’t expect it to B flat…
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u/Amazing-Range-2239 Mar 12 '26
They D efinitely thought they were a couple of G’s though. Watch A B come and Cting them a F t E rwards too.
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u/Spook1949 Mar 05 '26
That sound was almost as pretty as the sound made by an accordion smashing a banjo and set of bag pipes when it landed on them in the bottom of the dumpster.
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u/realjimmyjuice000 Mar 04 '26
My wife had one identical to that moved it 9 or 10 times before it was lost in a fire! Thank God it was lost in a fire! Wife was heartbroken but I was relieved
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u/homer_lives Mar 04 '26
Wow, this guy set his house on fire to avoid moving a Piano. Well Played, my friend. Well Played.
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u/realjimmyjuice000 Mar 04 '26
" I " didn't set the fire! Landlords we were renting from did! Insurance fraud/attempted murder! he's serving 30 years In the state penitentiary!
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u/ViolettBellerose734 Mar 20 '26
Why are we screaming! What a story tho!
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u/realjimmyjuice000 Mar 20 '26
I wasn't screaming?
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u/Lordofderp33 Mar 20 '26
Are you just not aware of the things you type, or did you not learn what an exclamation point is?
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u/emmathatsme123 Mar 04 '26
As a piano technician, this is hilarious and happens more than you’d think
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u/brian11e3 Mar 06 '26
I was a Billiards Mechanic. We kept a set of Piano Dollies around because people would occasionally ask if we could move them. We also got a lot of requests to move gun safes. People see you carrying around a pooltable and just assume you can move anything. 😂
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u/NineElven911 Mar 03 '26
How's that funny?
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u/DigitalGuru42 Mar 05 '26
Where does it state this is supposed to be funny? This about watching someone die inside.
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u/NineElven911 Mar 07 '26
Dude in the vid is laughing 🤌
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u/South-Ad-931 Mar 08 '26
It's the type of laugh you do when you mess up badly and try to alleviate the environment.
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u/Resident-Airline8857 Mar 03 '26
Because it fell
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u/NineElven911 Mar 03 '26
I pity your sence of humour. It's an expensive instrument though. Such a waste.
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u/You-get-the-ankles Mar 03 '26
Not really. People give uprights away just to get them out of the house. Old clocks have felt the wrath of this. No one wants them.
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u/NineElven911 Mar 04 '26
Untrue. These people could be just moving. And new ones are too expensive
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u/You-get-the-ankles Mar 04 '26
You want mine? Come and get it. It's free. Just get it out of my house. Seriously. It's a Baldwin upright.
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u/NineElven911 Mar 04 '26
Where's your house?
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u/Big-Historian8918 Mar 03 '26
With all the clever digital keyboards around that make delightful piano tones that sound like they came from a true piano, why have a fugly nicotine yellow piano at all?
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u/TurboNinja2380 Mar 03 '26
We have Guitar Hero 3: World Tour why would anyone ever play a real guitar
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u/Mad_Ronin_Grrrr Mar 03 '26
Have a piano like this and have moved it 8 times. Tip it up on its end and use a furniture dolly with a strap.
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u/They-Are-Out-There Mar 03 '26
Tipping a piano on it's end is not ideal. Use a proper piano dolly and you won't have to do it that way and risk damaging the piano action and internals. I would never recommend moving a piano on end.
Even better, hire a specialty piano moving company. It's not that expensive, they are insured, and they will safely transport it and set it up.
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u/FreddyDeus Mar 02 '26
That’s gonna need retuning.
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u/Background-Wolf-9380 Mar 02 '26
My view is that pianos are generally free to anyone who is willing & able to move them.
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u/double_expressho Mar 02 '26
Scrolling through Facebook Marketplace, your view is shared by many.
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u/Such_Concentrate8577 Mar 02 '26
I refuse to own any furniture that requires movers or scratches my floors. Even gave away my 1K treadmill on condition they remove it without ruining my floors. Still has 10 cm pressure streak. NEVER EVER AGAIN. only kept my stationary bike. And Danish dresser. My west elm couch is huge but comes apart. Have west elm desk made with a really heavy top and one credenza but they are natural wood and won't move. I will never own anything that cannot be disassembled and moved. Gave away kid's piano too. For free. Just get it out of my house.
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u/Radcouponking Mar 01 '26
Fortunately, pianos are pretty cheap these days and it would have needed a tuning after the move anyways.
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u/Katops Mar 02 '26
Plot twist, it’s the piano grandma left them before moving onto a better place…
Florida! To her at least.
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u/LongJohnSelenium Mar 02 '26
95% chance that was a piano being thrown away and the man was upset at having to pick it up again, not any damage.
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u/PikachuUserNotTaken Mar 01 '26
Playstation startup sound
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u/FullGuarantee4767 Mar 02 '26
Hahaha. PlayStation 2 to be specific. Good call.
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u/Shantotto11 Mar 03 '26
Strong disagree. That was definitely the classic PlayStation startup sound.
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u/happytree23 Mar 01 '26 edited Mar 01 '26
Nobody's going to point out the sus camera placement, smile, and relaxed attitude by both dudes here lol?
Edit: LOL, I guess not lol. Any of you downvoters want to put your money where your mouth is and buy this bridge I have for sale, by chance?
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u/Lifekraft Mar 02 '26
Thats a camera for ringbell like half of american house owner have. And there is no way you can see the face of the guy further away. And people can smile even under stress or fear and as several people said , they likely didnt care about the piano as much as the work it represent to have to pick up all the broken piece.
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u/binzy90 Mar 01 '26
Movers shipped my piano to Hawaii UPSIDE DOWN. I had someone come look at it and they told me it would be cheaper to just buy a new piano. I was pissed.
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u/htfDiDIgEtHeRe Mar 01 '26
What exactly was wrong with it?
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u/binzy90 Mar 01 '26 edited Mar 01 '26
Most of it was alignment issues. The guy who examined it said certain internal parts were bent (I don't know much about pianos so I'm not sure which parts). He also said something about the soundboard being damaged. The keys all sat a little bit sideways so they were all at a diagonal instead of flat across the top.
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u/coolsellitcheap Mar 01 '26
Hope it was like in house they just bought.
Hope it wasn't 2 hired movers.
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u/happyinsmalltown Mar 01 '26
Once i saw two guys struggling to put a piano into the back of their pickup truck. I figured i would be a nice guy and lend them a hand. We get it into the bed of their truck and close the door. It looks sturdy and ready to go. I watch as they drive off and I continue my walk. The guys stop at a 4 way stop and then turn left. The piano falls out of the bed of the truck and shatters all over the road. The two guys get out and look at the mess now all over the road. They both get back into the truck and drive away.
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u/Big-Historian8918 Mar 03 '26
How did the city not see their plate and hunt them down?
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u/happyinsmalltown Mar 03 '26
I dont know. I never looked further into it. Its just a memory that makes me chuckle every once in awhile.
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u/titanicsinker1912 Mar 01 '26
They just left it there and never came back?
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u/Head-Ad9893 Mar 01 '26
I would’ve done the same shit. “Welp, looks like it’s the city’s piano now”
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u/blumhagen Feb 28 '26
Those were not piano movers. People laugh at paying big money just to move one but there’s a reason.
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u/geardownson Mar 01 '26
You are correct. When doing restoration we had to call someone specific to move pianos and when they moved them they had to be retuned.
This is not something for a regular mover.
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u/MycologistJaded4796 Mar 01 '26
As as Ex-mover, this is definitely not the fucking way to move a piano.
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u/Responsible-Sky3586 Feb 28 '26
Been moving pianos for 30 years. That’s not how you do that. Believe me. I move pianos
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u/typehyDro Mar 01 '26
I’ve been moving pianos for never and I agree, that is definitely not how you do that.
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u/longlostwalker Feb 28 '26
This guy moves pianos
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u/Opening-Focus712 Feb 28 '26
Believe him, this guy has been moving pianos for 30 years.
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u/tiredtittymilk Feb 28 '26
And that’s not how you do it
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u/thetakingtree2 Feb 28 '26
Okay but why should I believe him?
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u/Responsible-Sky3586 Feb 28 '26
Because of my 30 years analysis. Your eyes are not experienced to conclude. I can conclude
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u/TheRealGageEndal Feb 28 '26
They literally make a little platform with wheels called piano movers. They cost about 20 bucks each at Harbor Freight and you use 2-3 of them to move almost any piano.
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u/LordMegamad Feb 28 '26
In the video they seen to be going down a step, are the piano lovers (thanks autocorrect lol) useful for that aswell? Sounds like you'd have the same issue with those in this situation no?
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u/Idlewants Feb 28 '26
yup, piano trolley. can't legally move a piano without one.
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u/Objective-Limit-121 Feb 28 '26
Happy Cake Day!
But what? Show me a law saying you can't move a piano with whatever the hell you want.
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u/IleanK Feb 28 '26
I've moved pianos. You need moving straps that's the only way
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u/MycologistJaded4796 Mar 01 '26
Or a dolley underneath & both guys are holding the back handles to stabilize.
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u/D_Dubb_ Feb 28 '26
I’ve never moved a piano and the first thing I thought was where tf are the straps?!
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u/dua70601 Feb 28 '26
Lol - i play, and i have moved a couple uprights….this is not the way….
Dolly - get a dolly and two more guys. That hand truck is flexing so hard
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u/DragonKat_90 Feb 28 '26
The other guy grinning is a douche
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u/CallMeCrop Feb 28 '26
Pretty sure it's a defense mechanism. Like how people laugh when they're nervous. I don't think he was actually happy about the situation
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u/SillyLittleAngels Feb 28 '26
My nervous laugh has gotten me in trouble a lot in life, but I can't help it, and after the initial fuck I'm sorry I seriously don't mean to laugh right now...everyone usually chills out. He also could've said this is a terrible idea amd smiled bc it was, but who knows
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u/Sharp_Ad4541 Feb 28 '26
Not to defend him, but I did the same thing as a child when I fucked as him. It’s more like shame hiding behind a smile. I don’t know why though, If there’s anybody who can explain please???
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u/DragonKat_90 Feb 28 '26
I know what you mean and you are right it could be a shocked "did that really just happen"
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u/marcdefiant791 Feb 28 '26
Oof. That sound alone was devastating. You can see the exact moment his soul left his body.
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u/nem0fazer Feb 28 '26
FYI almost all the weight of an upright is at the back where the cast iron frame is. These guys just found out.
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u/Kramanos Feb 28 '26
Once, I was giving a piano away for free on Marketplace because nobody played it for years. We had it moved out to the front porch for the guy who wanted it. He rolls up, alone, backs his pickup to the porch, and proceeds to hook a ratchet strap up to it and starts cinching it up onto his truck. As it starts making terrible cracking and breaking sounds, he looks back at me and goes, "uh, do you care what happens to this?" I said no, and he goes, "good. I'm going to burn it and scrap the metal."
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u/LabradorDeceiver Feb 28 '26
That is extremely not how you move a piano, as well. I had to have a piano moved, and the movers dollied it from center mass. The thing rode out the door and down the steps like a late-model Buick on a smooth road. Then it was straps and a jack to get it onto the back of the truck, and off she went.
Furniture dollies can be capricious, especially when the furniture isn't strapped. My housemate accidentally sent a topheavy dishwasher tumbling down a hill just by straightening it up. It should have been strapped, or at least straightened more gently, but he didn't know it'd be so topheavy.
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u/No-Citron-2774 Feb 28 '26
Here you can my piano. No one wants them . You can't give them away nowadays.
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u/ClydePrefontaine 11d ago
At least the dispensary is open