I had an entertaining weekend dismantling a piano. No, it's not a terrible waste since the piano is knackered and beyond economic repair, and I finally decided to get on and do something about it. Nobody was willing to come and dispose of it without charging a good deal of money for the privilege, so I decided to break it up and take it to the dump myself. At this point I can assure you that dismantling a piano is easier said than done! The initial part (removing the keyboard, hammers and dampeners) is easy, but when you get to the cast iron frame and string it gets massively irritating. To get the iron frame off the main wooden piano frame you have to remove all of the strings, which is a time consuming (and blister-inducing) job. It's also rather more noisy than you might think - God only knows what the neighbours thought I was doing! Still, it's almost got to the point where I can separate the iron frame now, at which point it can get into the car. It will be nice to free-up some of my sitting room and paint the bit of wall where the piano was (which remains in the previous owners tasteful 'hot pink'. Out of destruction I can bring order, you see. Sort of like God.