That's a shame, John.
I have a baby grand, which is a family heirloom, and it adds something to the house to have a piano, I think!

Perhaps one reason for the decline is that people move much more than they used to. No one wants to think about eventually moving a piano!

It seems that some enterprising person could invent a piano that can be taken apart and reassembled!?!

My home was built in 1918 and there was an old boiler down in the cellar for years. I called a couple of moving companies ... and no one could budge it.

One day, I called a scrap metal guy to pick up another item, and showed him the boiler too. He was a skinny guy, in his 70s. The next thing I knew ... he had taken the boiler apart and carried each of the pieces out, easily! It was amazing ... the thing did NOT look like it could come apart!