The dealers need to make money on the installation of pianos for, usually, a year, but some schools get a commission on any pianos sold. We do not. Do NOT dispose of all of your pianos. It may happen that after a year or two the dealer may wish to not participate any longer and you will be without pianos. Try to protect the instruments as much as possible. It is difficult to sell pianos that have deep scratches in the cases. Get a contract that stipulates everything. You may try to get the dealer to send a tuner to do the first tuning. You MUST have help just before the sale. Our sale is after Xmas and before the spring semester begins. See if you can make some trades, some of your old junk for something new but do not cripple yourself for the future. I have troubvle with Kawais with lossening glue joints, loose tuning pins, constant string breakage and soft finishes. One year of use sould not show up these problems but any longer term usage will. One of the problems I have found is that Kawai uses excessive tension in their scales which contributes to string breakage and also their hammers are so hard that that accelerates string breakage. I have replaced most hammers with Ronson hammers and that has been a great help! Lots of luck. Newton nhunt@gandalf.rutgers.edu
This PTG archive page provided courtesy of Moy Piano Service, LLC