Hi Folks, How about some real life numbers. I happen to know a Yamaha c3 with ivory keys sold for $3,000.00 Canadian in 1972. List price today is around $37,000.00 Canadian. I would think that anyone who has a c3 in good conditiion should be able to get 1/2 that price. At 12:20 AM 6/4/99 EDT, you wrote: > >In a message dated 6/02/1999 7:36:27 PM, Wim wrote: > ><< "But for the company to >promote that a customer should buy a Steinway over another instrument as an >investment that will appreciate in value more than any other instrument, is a >gross misrepresentation of the truth. ">> > >Wim; > I don't think that any other instrument appreciates in value or commands a >higher percentage used price than does S&S grands. There also is not any >other grand in as much demand as S&S grands. I can buy 65/70 year old >Chickering/Knabe/M&H, etc. for anywhere from 400 to 3500 dollars I can't >think of a single S&S grand that I can touch, of any age, for anywhere near >that amount. > > I don't know what Steinway says on their page or in their advertising..but >if they say anything like 'S&S grands hold their 'value' better than anything >else on the market and 'appreciate' in value better than anything else on the >market and are more 'expensive' to acquire than anything else on the used >market'...than I will agree with Steinway. >Jim Bryant (FL) > > Regards, Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T. Tuner for the Saskatchewan Centre of the Arts drose@dlcwest.com http://www.dlcwest.com/~drose/ 3004 Grant Rd. REGINA, SK S4S 5G7 306-352-3620 or 1-888-29t-uner
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