<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Thanks, Pat; pleasure to chat with you....<div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Jul 16, 2012, at 5:21 PM, J Patrick Draine wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">David,<div>Amonth ago Our local Steinway dealer has a Walter studio traded in toward a pricey new S&S grand, and they sold the Walter to a customer of mine for $1,999. I'll be tuning it soon, but this was a really good deal for my customer (this dealer seldom prices low). Definitely more like a Craigslist price.<span></span></div> <div>Great seeing you at Seattle,</div><div>Patrick<br><br>On Monday, July 16, 2012, David Andersen wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hey all---Seattle was fantastic; great teachers, great classes, great people, a few great pianos...an honor and a pleasure being there and, especially, being given the honor of teaching there. Really. I love it.<br> <br> I've never really come across a Walter piano in my practice; at conventions or NAMM, yes, but never in the wild. So now I have a 1991 Queen Anne-style mahogany "tall" console; it's in immaculate shape, just needs some tightening, tuning regulatin' and voicing which I'll do.<br> Then it will look, sound and feel new and wonderful. At that point, what's a fair price for this micro-retailer to ask for such a sweet cupcake of a piano? Please don't guess; I'd like some experience-based answers, please.<br> <br> Appreciate you taking the time to think about this...<br> <br> DA</blockquote> </div> </blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>