“We have a certain reputation for getting rid of pianos for people so the pianos find us — people emailing all the time and say `I have extra pianos. Can you please take them,’’’ Plasmeier said. “This year, we had someone who has five pianos and wanted us to take them, so then we contracted with the piano movers to pick them up from the people at no cost to them.’’

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