Scrapping an old piano

[Lilymaid]

Oh woe! The piano tuner has confirmed that my DF's good quality piano is now beyond economic repair - cracked soundboard would cost more than its value to replace. Even DH has agreed that the only way is now scrap.
Has any one managed to offload a piano onto a scrap metal merchant? The piano is in DF's old house in SW London/NW Surrey borders ... nearly 100 miles from where we live, so vagueries of Freecycle are probably out of the question.

The copper strings in it must be worth quite a lot. Not sure about the rest of it.

We were considering removing the wooden panels and passing them to a friend who teaches resistant materials/technology. The piano tuner is interested in the keys which are pre-war so they are ... ivory covered . After that there's a steel frame and copper wiring and brass pedals, so should be of interest to a scrap merchant.

Ah yes, I was going to mention the ivory, but as it's illegal to sell them thought I'd better not. Piano tuners would definitely be interested to have them as spares as otherwise if they come across a piano with a single broken key they have to replace the whole lot with plastic instead of a single one with a recycled ivory one. My piano tuner explained it all to me a while ago.