<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><div>     Square grands suffer from "Beanie Baby Syndrome": they are sold for whatever someone is wiling to pay for them, independent of the considerations of actual musicians or piano technicians regarding their worth. So, when someone asks me what they should sell one for, I tell them "Whatever you can get for it, and be happy at the end of the day if someone is willing to take it for free!"<br />     But if someone asks what they should PAY for one, I tell them that their value is mainly as antique furniture, and that even a mediocre upright from the 1885-1915 period would be a better investment as far as musicality is concerned. (But more likely to have had mice in it, so watch out for that!)<br /><br />Thumpe</div></td></tr></table>            <div id="_origMsg_">
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From: Ed Foote &lt;a440a@aol.com&gt;<br>
To: pianotech &lt;pianotech@ptg.org&gt;<br>
Sent: Fri, Oct 26, 2012 10:26 am<br>
Subject: [pianotech] Square&#39;s for $ 20K ? Is that possible?<br>
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<pre style="font-size:9pt;"><tt>Greetings,
    Recently, I was asked to give an appraisal of a square grand, and my 
fair market value estimate was approx. 5% of what others expected.  In 
my experience here in Tennessee, these things can&#39;t be given away, but 
there might be other venues in which they are pursued.  I was told that 
the insurance estimate had been $20K and that various web sites had 
them advertised from $20 to $35k.
    Does anybody care to offer what prices they have actually seen paid 
for these pianos in the last 10 years?
Regards,

Ed Foote RPT
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