A piano technician hired to inspect the piano can tell you its condition and value, and advise you on its potential uses, taking into account its quality of design and construction and its present condition. In order to make a good decision about where to donate the piano, it is recommended that you know its current condition and fair market value. If the donor has waited until the last minute to decide to donate a piano, then his or her options will be much more limited than if time had been allowed for a nonprofit to consider the offer and, if appropriate, make arrangements for receiving the piano. The two parties’ criteria may or may not be a good match, and the nonprofit might turn down the donation. Also, musicians have specific artistic requirements, and the piano will simply take up space and other resources if it can’t fulfill those requirements. This is because a piano is a big item that requires storage in a protected environment and access to skilled people to tune and repair it. The nonprofit receiving the piano, however, may have specific criteria about how, when, and where they will receive a donated piano, as well as specific restrictions about its condition, quality of construction, durability, and appearance. The person making the donation may need the piano to be removed from its present location by a specific time, and have specific criteria as to which worthy causes they are willing to contribute.
Say, for example, someone wants to donate a piano to a nonprofit organization that can either use it or resell it for their tax-exempt purposes. This makes it possible for me to discuss with each party what is in its or their best interest.
In particular, I have learned to separate discussions of the current condition and potential of a piano from the needs and desires of the people and organizations involved. In this article, I outline some of the options available to those who have a piano they don’t want to keep or sell, but would like to see it go somewhere other than the dump or local landfill.īecause of the diversity of my clients - piano dealers, piano owners, antique-store owners, collectors, investors, banks, insurance companies, estate appraisers, courts, probate trustees, and nonprofit organizations - I have found it important to establish an effective framework for discussing and advising people about the transfer of a piano from one ownership and/or use to another.
In my 31 years of experience as a piano appraiser and broker, and as a partner in a piano-rebuilding business, I have daily encountered people who are considering donating or otherwise disposing of their pianos.
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