I think the best advice for Steinway shopping I've heard is to be prepared to leave without selecting a piano and schedule to come at a later date when perhaps some other, hopefully better, pianos are available. Andrew Anderson On Mar 1, 2010, at 8:26 AM, Porritt, David wrote: > Andrew wrote – {big snip} > > It also has rather advanced "killer octave, money octave, Steinway > tonal deficit disorder..." you choose your preferred term, at six > years of age now. It was excessively weak in the treble, something > that the professor doing the selection believes he was told would be > addressed prior to delivery. > > That, to me, is the biggest problem with piano professors or other > pianists – no matter how good – selecting pianos. While they know > good pianos from bad ones, and can detect real problems, they don’t > generally know which problems are fixable and which are un-fixable > structural problems. The “oh yes, we’ll have our technicians adjust > that easily” sounds good but when it’s a send-it-back-for-a-new- > belly type problem they frequently don’t know the difference. Also, > they are good a picking out the best (or the least bad) piano for a > recital, they don’t know when it would be better to simply choose to > come back at a later date to pick a piano to buy. > > dave > > David M. Porritt, RPT > dporritt at smu.edu > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100301/71197666/attachment.htm>
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