Piano Metal Recycling

[Farrell]

I'm not trying to make any money off this stuff. Just looking for some place to dump it for recycling. Its gotta be easier to get a pound of copper out of a pile of bass strings than out of some mountain in Michigan's Keweenaw pennisula!

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles Neuman" <piano@charlesneuman.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 10:10 PM
Subject: Re: Piano Metal Recycling


> From: "Farrell" <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com>
> > I have a whole pile of old bass strings from several pianos. There is
> > a lot of copper in there. Do any kind of metal recycling places take
> > any of our garbage like this? Anyone have any experience with this?
> 
> I'll bet if you separate out the copper you could get money for it. I had
> a neighbor who used to burn off the insulation from copper wire in his
> back yard so he could sell the copper. (By the smell of some of the stuff
> he used to burn, I'm guessing it wasn't too environmentally friendly.)
> 
> I'd like to hear some clever ways of unwinding the bass strings!
> 
> Charles Neuman
> PTG Assoc, Long Island
> 
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