Piano choice. Thoughts please

[antares]

The Bösendorfer of course!
Why? for the money and the size.
And they can be very beautiful.

Antares,

Amsterdam, Holland

where music is..........

> From: "David Boyce" <David@bouncer.force9.co.uk>
> Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 19:25:20 +0100
> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Subject: Piano choice. Thoughts please
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> I had a lovely day on Monday (and also part of Tuesday) trying out various
> grands in London showrooms!
> 
> In addition to piano tuning, I teach media stuff in a college. Music has
> been a growth area and a new music lecturer has persuaded senior management
> that we need a good grand piano.  It will be used quite a bit for
> recording, and for some performance. A new music suite is under
> construction, coverting from a gymnasium.  The configration of this area
> will be arranged to suit the chosen pino so it's an ideal scenario.
> 
> I took the new music lecturer, Marc, round some London showrooms.  I had
> thought to look at Bostons or similar, but it seems the budget might run to
> something better!
> 
> Attractive propositions are: A new Steinway AS model, (a slightly less well
> finished A designed for schools).  Also available, which we tried and liked
> a lot, are a very competitively priced Bosendorfer 225 (7' 4") which is a
> 1998 hire piano which looks and sounds and feels lovely (I'm a bit of a
> Bosendorfer fan) and a beautiful, powerful Fazioli of the same size, but
> it's 37 thousand pounds sterling as opposed to 26500 for the Bosendorfer.
> (A Steinway AS would cost about 23 thousand pounds).
> There were also a couiple of reconditioned 100yr old Steinway B's at 20,000
> pounds. (tho I bear in mind all the recent discussion on new vs old!).
> 
> What do you think folks - especiallu those in UK?  Especially, what would
> you reckon between the Fazioli and the Bosendorfer?  (The Steinway AS is
> not comparing like with like as it's smaller of course).
> 
> 
> 
> All comments/suggestions welcome!
> 
> David Boyce
> David@piano.plus.com
> David@bouncer.force9.co.uk
>