Andrew wrote - {big snip}
It also has rather advanced "killer octave, money octave, Steinway tonal deficit disorder..." you choose your preferred term, at six years of age now. It was excessively weak in the treble, something that the professor doing the selection believes he was told would be addressed prior to delivery.
That, to me, is the biggest problem with piano professors or other pianists - no matter how good - selecting pianos. While they know good pianos from bad ones, and can detect real problems, they don't generally know which problems are fixable and which are un-fixable structural problems. The "oh yes, we'll have our technicians adjust that easily" sounds good but when it's a send-it-back-for-a-new-belly type problem they frequently don't know the difference. Also, they are good a picking out the best (or the least bad) piano for a recital, they don't know when it would be better to simply choose to come back at a later date to pick a piano to buy.
dave
David M. Porritt, RPT
dporritt at smu.edu<mailto:dporritt at smu.edu>
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