The piano tuner has refused to come back. ‘Not until you get a new one,’ he said.
A few decades ago, I could have donated it to a piano-breaking competition and watched it be smashed to bits. But events like that seem to have fallen out of fashion. The Guinness World Record for hacking a piano into pieces small enough to fit through a letterbox slot stands at 1 minute, 34 seconds, by the way.