New D. Sell it for $90K. Buy an old one for $15K. Dump $40K into it and have a better-than-new piano and $35K left over. I have an idea you won't like that answer either. Do you mean I would have to live with my selection for some decades to come? Let's assume so. Would the old one be original condition? By chance was the old D hermetically sealed in a climate-controlled box and never played for the last hundred years (and maybe the soundboard blocked up so that the panel didn't crush?)? Would I have my pick from 20 new Ds and 20 old Ds? If not, I would take a new D for sure. If I had a choice among many, I would look at all of them, but would be willing to bet that I'd pick a new one. Age has this nasty habit of slowly destroying a piano. 100 years is way more than enough time for age to destroy a piano. Terry Farrell > On 18-jan-05, at 21:26, Terry wrote: > > > Hundred year old Steinway for sure. Why pay $95K for a new one when > > you can > > buy one just as good for $15K? I mean, either way, you are going to > > want to > > tear it apart anyway, right? > > > > Terry Farrell > > > > > >> I have posed this question before : > >> > >> If you had the choice : you can get a brand new Steinway D and you can > >> get a hundred year old Steinway D... > >> What would be your choice? > >> > >> André Oorebeek > > No no Terry, > > let me try to be more clear : > > You don't have to pay anything and you have the choice between a new D > and a hundred year old D. > What's it gonna be? > > friendly greetings > from > André Oorebeek
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