cheap concert grands?

[Stephen Airy]

just so long as the plate isn't shot and the block
"only" requires repinning with 5/0 or 6/0 pins at <70
inch-pounds.  And it doesn't even have to be a S&S D.
:)

--- Wimblees@AOL.COM wrote:
> In a message dated 5/26/01 6:49:55 AM Central
> Daylight Time, 
> stephen_airy@yahoo.com writes:
> 
> 
> > Could someone recommend some good brands and
> models of
> > 9-foot grand pianos?  I'm trying to price some
> concert
> > grands for under $10,000 (preferably under
> $7,000).  I
> > don't care if they need work on them, so long as
> they
> > can get by with a tuning and regulation in order
> to
> > make all 88 notes sound.
> > 
> > 
> 
> A good concert grand for under $10,000 is an
> oxymoron. You either want a 
> cheap concert grand that look decent and will just
> barely stay in tune, and 
> needs lots of work to regulate, or you want a good
> concert grand that cannot 
> be tuned because the block is shot, nor regulated
> because the parts are 
> completely worn out, and looks like hell. 
> 
> Willem 
> 


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