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<div>Barbara,</div>
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<div>My experience with these is somewhat limited, but the ones I've tuned have not been inspiring instruments. </div>
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<div>Postitives: Nice cases, Steinway decals</div>
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<div>Negatives: Hard to tune, overpriced, uninspiring tone</div>
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<div>One could purchase a decent and far less quirky new studio upright piano for what she's likely to pay for a Steinway console.</div>
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<div>Just MHO,</div>
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<div>Dave Stahl</div>
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To: pianotech@ptg.org<br>
Sent: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 6:35 AM<br>
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<div><FONT face=Arial size=2>Help! Quick!</FONT></div>
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<div><FONT face=Arial size=2>My sister-in-law is on the hunt for a used piano and has asked me to look at a Steinway Console for her. It's been a long, long time since I've serviced any of these and only remember that I didn't like them. Besides difficulty in tuning is there anything else I can say to persuade her to look elsewhere?</FONT></div>
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<div><FONT face=Arial size=2>E-mail privately if you don't want to go on record..... :-)</FONT></div>
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<div><FONT face=Arial size=2>Barbara Richmond</FONT></div>
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