>Maybe some of those old, beautiful pianos really ARE worth restoring! > >Wally Scherer Absolutely, and of course not. Trouble is - what they're worth isn't what they're worth. It depends on where you draw the lines between musical performance, looks, cost, and the market. Sadly, with very shiny new "horizontal" pianos selling at a price considerably below what it would cost to do justice to the old upright, the consumers will likely opt for the "grand". Even the folks that want to keep that old upright, rather than to buy the grand, want to do it as cheaply as possible, with the best "visual" result they can get, since they already think it sounds pretty good as is. I have that conversation more often than any other, I think, or maybe it just seems like it. I hope that isn't a universal thing everywhere, but that's the story in my part of town. Ron N
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