Anyone else dispose of a piano by breaking it into pieces?

I had to get rid of an old cheap Supertone upright piano, and a piano refurbishment shop told me it wasn't worth anything and they'd charge me £70 to take it to the dump

so I spent 3 days breaking it into bits small enough to put in the car, armed with just a crowbar, screwdriver, handsaw, bolt cutters and an electric drill.

the iron frame was a b*tch to break up (fixed by odd square-headed countersunk screws), and the pieces were still pretty heavy.

but that's one musical goal out the way


anyone have piano-disposal related stories to tell? dropped one out of a plane/hit one with a car/truck, roll one down a hill into a wall etc?

 

oops...

actually I'm pretty sure the black keys on this one were just painted softwood, and the white keys were capped with some kind of plastic.

apparently it was tuned a semitone down. I tried tuning it up to standard pitch but gave up halfway through.

 

ouch...

I seem to remember an entry in the Guinness Book of Records for a team of martial arts experts breaking up a piano using bare hands and feet.

I don't know how they could break the iron frame and strings, at least without injuring themselves....