> I'd take Susan Kline's suggestion and ask a pianist (or become one > yourself). That is a good suggestion, and it is something that I do all the time. In fact my wife is a concert pianist, and as a general rule, we talk all the time. My experience with her and other concert level pianist is that they simply compensate for whatever is in front of them; most of them really don't know what they want because they have not constantly experienced highly maintained pianos. Now someone like Horowitz, a pianist who often traveled with his own piano and piano technician, understood much more clearly what he wanted out of his piano. The reality is that most concert pianist today have very little of this understanding. Bradley M. Snook
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