Steinway value?

[Richard Anderson]

The problem in the Chicago area is that the butcher jobs don't go cheap.
They'll sell for 90% of, or the same as a well restored or original piano.
We have some particularly creative rebuilders in Chicago and redoing their
previous rebuilds take significantly more time than a job on a unrestored
piano. I've started charging extra for rework (25-50%) because it's often
not a matter of just using better parts or more careful work this time
around, but some serious undoing before redoing.

Richard Anderson

> From: Ron Nossaman <RNossaman@KSCABLE.com>
> Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 22:11:42 -0600
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Re: Steinway value?
> 
>> . It's getting harder to find
>> Steinways that haven't already been resomethingoranothered.
>> 
>> Richard Anderson
> 
> 
> Hi Richard,
> Resomethingorothering isn't the ENDOFTHEWORLD it used to be not that many
> years ago. The rebuilders' , retrofitters', and re-engineerers', state of
> the art, and the choice of replacement parts is such these days that a
> severely "butchered", and generally "fallen from grace" usta-be Steinway at
> a couple of grand less than a pristine, bona fide, authenticatably
> authentic usta-be Steinway is quite possibly a better deal. Both the
> "restore it like it was", and the "make it like it could be" factions can
> benefit by getting a better deal on a non-standardized carcass and doing
> what they will with it. I'll buy all the failed Steinway rebuild attempts
> CHEAP, that you can come up with. As long as the case and structure is there.
> 
> More perspective,
> 
> Ron N
>