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Comment by stef25 | Hacker News Reader

Exactly, you need to have a seriously good argument to backup crushing a piano

They aren’t some kind of mystical magic talisman, just a bunch of wood and metal. Might as well say you need a seriously good argument to crush a dining room table.

People struggle to find someone to take their crappy upright pianos for free because they are worthless. Violin players refer to cheap student instruments as violin shaped objects. You can have a trumpet shipped to your door with same day delivery for $90 on Amazon.

Yeah you're right, my dad has such a piano. It's still fun when someone who can play comes over. And my 5yr old daughter has taken a liking to it so maybe we'll enroll her in classes, maybe that will be the piano that made her discover her love of music. That probably would not have happened with an iPad pro.

https://youtu.be/QvW61K2s0tA

How about OK Go exploding tons of guitars?

Making video art is more than a legitimate reason to destroy props. This feels like a silly discussion.

"The guitars are all defects. They're manufacturing defects. You know, we want to blow up guitars but we don't actually want to keep musical instruments out of the world." https://youtu.be/2dFdNUz2cQc?t=73

OK Go identified the potential issue beforehand and found a solution that would work for them.

If I had access to a hydraulic press, there’s plenty of times I might have crushed my guitar over the years. Learning an instrument has been very difficult and frustrating for me.

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