<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/Musicians-Gear-Deluxe-Padded-Piano-Bench?sku=450321">http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/Musicians-Gear-Deluxe-Padded-Piano-Bench?sku=450321</a><br> <br> We got a few of these a couple of years ago, after I saw one at a customers house and was fairly impressed by the robustness of the construction. They have held up under daily practice room use for about 3 years now, and seem to have a lot of life remaining in them.You might find better quality, but probably not for $89 bucks, and they're adjustable to boot. The "roomy music compartment" is a bit of a stretch, though!<br> <br> - Mark Dierauf<br> <br> Rob & Helen Goodale wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:%3C000e01c8801d$6d4f9c80$0202a8c0@Goodale%3E" type="cite"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; "> <meta content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16608" name="GENERATOR"> <style></style> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">The majority of the university benches have seen better days.  Most have been broken, glued, broken again, stripped screw holes repaired, broken yet again, etc, etc.  The pianos aren't much better so I'm not too excited about buying nice expensive benches for cigar boxes with rubber bands pretending to be pianos.  My hope is that most of the pianos will be replaced within the next few years along with new benches.  </font><font face="Arial" size="2">In the meantime I would like to look into buying some inexpensive benches to keep things going for a while.</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">The benches the supply companies offer, (Schaff, Pianotek, etc), seem decent but I would like to try to do better budget-wise.  I haven't seen a price list for a while but I recall seeing some inexpensive Chinese benches a while back with quality consistent with those included with the typical Chinese import pianos.  That may be sufficient for now.  Can anyone tell me who is distributing these benches domestically?  I would like to get a catalog.</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Rob Goodale, RPT</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Las Vegas, NV</font></div> </blockquote> <br> </body> </html>