I think the best advice for Steinway shopping I've heard is to be
prepared to leave without selecting a piano and schedule to come at a
later date when perhaps some other, hopefully better, pianos are
available.
Andrew Anderson
On Mar 1, 2010, at 8:26 AM, Porritt, David wrote:
> 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
>
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