How much scrap metal could I get from a piano?

Question

How much scrap metal could I get from a piano?

Answer 1

Whoa!~~ the HARP of a piano is metal, the rest is wood. Harps are usually steel, painted gold to look nice. Bronze would not be strong enough to withstand the tension of all those strings. You can call a scrap yard, but I doubt it worth much at all.

Answer 2

There is not enough metal weight in a piano to make it worth the time to scrap it. For scrap metal of any type to have full value it must be "clean". For example, an old aluminum bike frame is worth a few dollars if it has been stripped of all the other non-metal components and cables. The value of it goes down by 50% if the metal is not "clean". Steel is worth nothing compared to copper and aluminum.



The wood from an old piano has no real value unless you just want to use it for shelving in your garage. It takes too much time and effort to refurbish it. Most piano wood is Canadian spruce and we have more spruce trees in the country than anything else!



It is easier to make money going around collecting aluminum beer cans that people throw out. It's clean metal and if you fill an average pickup truck box full of bagged up beer cans it's worth about $300.

Answer 3

I don't think so you could probably make more refinishing the wood and selling to people who want a piano even if they don't play.