Dan writes: << If anyone is interested in this piano for your school or private use, please let me know. The owner's indication to me is that any reasonable offer will be considered. >> I think a reasonable price for rebuildable Steinway grands is $ 1,000 per foot, if ebony, $1,300 if natural wood, with rosewood going for maybe $1,800 per foot. Fancy cases will of course be worth more. Add maybe another $250 if the ivory is good. For those of us that must contract out certain procedures, (such as soundboards running about $10,000 depending on transportation, etc , refinishing at $ 6,000,) plus the cost of the piano at $6,000, cost of action parts at near $3,000, the labor of doing the action, regulating, tuning, tuning tuning, cartage, back-up visits, and assuming the responsibility of a warranty, my market experience says that to sell it for $35,000 (difficult to do these days), will net no more than what could have been made doing all this work for someone else on their own piano! Anybody else got different figures for projects like this? I would love to know how the economics of rebuilding differ in other parts of the country. Thanks, Ed Foote RPT http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html <BR><BR><BR>**************<BR>Looking for love this summer? Find it now on AOL Personals. (http://personals.aol.com/?ncid=emlcntuslove00000003)</HTML>
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