<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4613.1700" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV>Two years ago our local community performance organization bought a 1956 Baldwin D for $12,000.   It is a pretty nice instrument, looks good and sounds great except it could having a little more singing tone in the killer octave.  Classical pianists complain about that but the jazzers love it.  I think we got a steal...</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>David I. *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 5/26/01 at 2:40 PM Wimblees@AOL.COM wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid">In a message dated 5/26/01 6:49:55 AM Central Daylight Time, stephen_airy@yahoo.com writes: <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px" TYPE="CITE">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. </BLOCKQUOTE> 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 </BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>