But Jeff, they are hard to tune, hard to work on, and while they might outlast 2 Baldwin 243s or 2 Yamaha U1s, they cost 3 times as much! dave __________________________________________ David M. Porritt, RPT Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 75275 ----- Original message ----------------------------------------> From: Jeff Tanner <jtanner@mozart.sc.edu> To: College and University Technicians <caut@ptg.org> Received: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 10:13:12 -0400 Subject: Re: Tuning Steinway Verticals >Ed wrote: >>This is what you get for a $17,000 vertical piano. My customers could >>have bought >>a Kawai for $7000. (They were not my customer when they bought it; I'm >>the 5th >>technician to work on it in 2 years.) >Yes, but what you get for $17K is a workhorse that will last a very long >time. You can put these in a practice room and expect them to far outlast >just about anything else you can put in there, with tuning stability well >into its 5th decade or longer. Granted, the prices of Steinway pianos have >far, far, far outpaced the CPI over the last 30 years, but they do build a >solid product, and one of the few pianos I know of which as an investment >has historically far outperformed any other manufacturer's offerings, and I >see that investment being as solid as real estate. How much longer our >economy can sustain their greater-than-CPI price increases will be >interesting to observe, but of late, IMO this applies to most all >manufacturers. >May not be the most pleasing tone, and you'll fuss and cuss every time you >have to service one of them. But I don't know of anything else built which >is as durable as a Steinway 1098. We have 5 of them here, the newest of >which is ca 1967. They're still very solid, reliable pianos. I service >one for a local piano teacher. The piano is about 30 years old, and she >still adores it. >I hate 'em and I love 'em (er, like 'em). >Jeff >Jeff Tanner, RPT >Piano Technician >School of Music >813 Assembly ST >University of South Carolina >Columbia, SC 29208 >(803)-777-4392 >jtanner@mozart.sc.edu >_______________________________________________ >caut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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