<DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> I had a friend who's music academy purchased a Seiler 8'1" Concert Grand.....initially during the first year or two it was muffled to the point of frustration and there was no openness in it's tone, then after a year or two it got horribly bright (as bad as a heavily played Yamaha C7) from all the frustrated poundings from most pianist friends i know who have played that piano (of most complained about the same thing) they have a very heavy touch, tiring to play (the Abels on the thing are of mammoth proportions) All this in spite of 4 technicians efforts to fix the piano up.....so IMHO either the lot of us are really incompetent or the piano's just like that....... Do these Seilers require alot of preparation as well? A 7 foot Seiler I once performed on was very nice compared to the 8 footer. They ended up switching to a Schimmel 256 a few months ago...it started out quite bright but after doing the necessary voicing after delivery.....it was pure heaven :)  Greg,Try the Seiler 8'1". Actually they are all quite nice. Rick Ucci / Ucci Piano > Greetings list goers, > I am in a position of trying to gather information for a church > who has a sky high budget to find a piano their music director likes. I > believe they are interested in a 7 footer. He, the director, has tried and > likes the Grotrian and the Pleyel. He has tried more than a few S&S B's and > was "under whelmed (his words)" by them. He disliked the "accelerated > action" specifically. He has seen the Petrof and was somewhat interested > but not for the main instrument so he may be looking at a 7' and possibly a > 6' instrument as well. He rather dislikes the bright, harsh sound and > favors a full bodied tone quality. A man after my own heart! In the case of > a rather large budget with these tastes in mind, where would you steer this > individual? I even suggested a hand built piano like one from Ron Overs or > Stephen P. (I forget his last name) but it seems that he is trying to have > something in place by January as the donators of the money are getting > antsy. Suggestions PLEASE! > > Greg > Greg Newell > Greg's piano Forté > mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net > </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> ~LIFE IS LIKE TOILET PAPER...   ~THE CLOSER IS GETS TO THE END...     ~  THE FASTER IT GOES!!! ~~~wHaHaHa = P  <hr SIZE=1> Do you Yahoo!? <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=10469/*http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com">Yahoo! SiteBuilder</a> - Free, easy-to-use web site design software