I am tasked with estimating at what price the instrument might be xpected to sell. Is there any guidance out there? Anyone need an extra Imperial? Thanks, Kent Swafford I would suggest you market the piano, but not put a price on it. Wait to see who comes along, and ask them what they want to pay, and take the highest bidder. The Dean will have to answer to higher ups why the instrument is being sold for such a small amount. Wim -----Original Message----- From: kswafford <kswafford at gmail.com> To: College and University Technicians <caut at ptg.org> Sent: Fri, Sep 24, 2010 6:49 am Subject: [CAUT] Bösendorfer Imperial We have a Bösendorfer Imperial (9' 6", 97 notes) that has overstayed ts welcome here for a number of reasons. (The current dean wants to move to the all-Steinway designation and so he B'dorf' must move away from any concert stage. Also, our backstage s ill-equipped to deal with this extra-wide instrument which cannot e rolled through standard double doors. There is no room for the iano to stay backstage during opera, ballet, and large ensemble erformances, so we have been taking the doors off their hinges to ove the piano out of the stage area. Big inconvenience) The piano is 40 years old. Four years ago the instrument was efinished, received a new belly, and new hammers, shanks and flanges n Vienna. The case could be touched up to near-perfection. It has one- iece original ivories that show some cracking that can be seen but ot felt under the fingers. The instrument is concert-ready for all ractical purposes. The dean would like to sell the piano. I think potential buyers would be vanishingly few, and it is unlikely hat the piano could be sold quickly -- might take a long time. My bservation is that especially in the central part of the country, the alues of used nicer pianos and especially used larger pianos have een depressed for some time. I am tasked with estimating at what price the instrument might be xpected to sell. Is there any guidance out there? Anyone need an extra Imperial? Thanks, Kent Swafford -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100924/fdc3718a/attachment.htm>
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