Don't think I've ever seen one, so have to imagine what it would be like. I'm sure it's better than a Lindner, and there were quite a few Lindners sold. A good friend of mine had one. I didn't ask him where he got it. His 2 girls played it, at least when the keys worked. There are many pianos like the Betsy Ross, because there are many people who can't afford better quality, so they do the best they can to provide an instrument for the family. If the manufacturers didn't make a low end quality piano like this, many kids would be deprived of a piano, and would have to play another instrument. I studied the violin as a youngster, and the violin wasn't a Strad. I didn't know the difference, and couldn't have done much better, if it was a Strad. My father bought the best thing he could afford. When my teacher played my violin, it sounded great, not so when I played it, till I reached a level where my brothers and sister didn't seem to disappear whenever I practised. After about two years, I was getting requests for songs I didn't even know yet. So now I know they weren't too swift either, but the sound I produced early on wasn't what they could tolerate, so they made themselves scarce. We had quite a few chuckles about that later in life. I did manage to get some musical education from this very poor instrument, and I'm thankfull for it. I also have tuned many low end pianos. When I first started to tune, that was all I should have worked on with the ability I had. I used to think that they didn't sound very good because of my tuning, but maybe I wasn't completely at fault. Carl / Winnipeg.
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