At 07:13 AM 05/02/2000 -0500, you wrote: >>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 > > Ron, Have you priced a new Steinway upright lately? Dave
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