Who told you they weren't any good.The Hardman Peck "Mini-Piano" is a well built and nicely scaled average sounding piano.I actually just tuned one last week.The one last week hadn't been tuned for over 10 years and I was impressed at how close to be being in tune it was and how easy it was to pull up the pitch and then fine tune it. The small 64 note piano that I don't particularly like is one made by Wurlitzer called a Tom Thumb.....it ends up sounding worse than cheap spinet. I have a book that you might find interesting that talks about "Mini-Pianos"and much more,maybe you could put it on your Christmas list.It is called "PIANO A Photographic History of the World's Most celebrated Instrument" by David Crombie.It is published by GPI Books of SanFransico and sells for about $40.00 hard bound.It has a lot of great pictures and an accurate historical time line includeing players electronic,and novelty pianos.It makes a great coffee table book as well as a reference book for finding out about Mini-Pianos.
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