Selecting new Steinways

[Newton Hunt]

Take a thread you can check crown.  A bearing gauge is good.  Carefully
look at the bridges and how the strings cross it, hopefully at about
ninety degrees.

Listen to A5 and C6, alone if you can.  Time the duration of the tone. 
The longer the better.  Listen for tone quality, sustain, dynamic range
and distortion under _hard_ playing.

If you like a piano go for it.  If you do not like a piano, even if you
do not know why, DON'T approve it.  Just say no.  There are issues with
pianos you are aware of but may not be able to verbalize immediately. 
You brain knows more than you mouth does so listen to your brain.

Kind of like picking a mate, one you will have to live with for a very
long time.

Enjoy the experience and take the time to go to ground zero and pray or
ask to be shown the factory.  Take some time and _feel_ the City.  No
other place like it in the world.

		Newton