{"id":34557,"date":"2025-07-18T17:29:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T22:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34557"},"modified":"2025-07-18T17:29:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T22:29:04","slug":"the-piano-unwanted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34557","title":{"rendered":"The Piano, Unwanted"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Late last week, someone dumped <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34535\">a piano at the dumpsters<\/a> in my apartment complex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s not uncommon for people in the area to leave furniture, building materials, spare tires (today&#8217;s find!), and other bulky junk in my complex&#8217;s dumpster area.  There are signs that there are cameras, but if so I have no idea where they are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After some research, I found that the piano was a player piano and about a century old.  I couldn&#8217;t rescue it; I haven&#8217;t the room, and it wouldn&#8217;t have even fit through the door.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I put a call out on social media.  Maybe someone would want this.  Alas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We had torrential downpours on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Wednesday, I saw that other furniture that had accumulated was gone.  I didn&#8217;t see the piano.  No, it was still there, shoved against the hillside, behind the dumpsters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Thursday, again, torrential rains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rains have done damage. The cabinet has warped, and the hammer mechanisms, which had looked to be intact and well-maintained, are now are caddywumpus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This piano is a century-old.  It was loved.  It has seen history.  And it ends, unwanted, left to the elements, behind a dumpster. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-fullwidth\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250718_112816-1200x900.jpg\" alt=\"The piano, after the rains\" class=\"wp-image-34553\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250718_112828.jpg\" alt=\"Warping of the cabinet, and the messed up hammers\" class=\"wp-image-34555\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-fullwidth\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250718_112827-1200x675.jpg\" alt=\"More detail of the messed up hammers\" class=\"wp-image-34554\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-fullwidth\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250718_112832-1200x1200.jpg\" alt=\"Still more detail of the messed up hammers\" class=\"wp-image-34556\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late last week, someone dumped a piano at the dumpsters in my apartment complex. It&#8217;s not uncommon for people in the area to leave furniture, building materials, spare tires (today&#8217;s find!), and other bulky junk in my complex&#8217;s dumpster area. There are signs that there are cameras, but if so I have no idea where<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34557\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;The Piano, Unwanted&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[5253,5252],"class_list":["post-34557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-autopiano-company","tag-piano","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}