<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html>   gordon stelter wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE>Cheap? This one (5'8"-6') was "List,$25,000, Sale,$22,000" - more than I had in my pocket at the moment.</blockquote> Well... if you did have anything in your pocket... how much would you have to pay for a Steinway A, or a C3 these days over there ? Here, I can get a 193cm Petrof for about half the price of an S&S A. And a Yamaha C3 or C5 is going to be about 30 % more expensive. Petrofs are no longer the least expensive instruments we can buy... but they have a ways to go before they get as pricey as most of the other names around.   <blockquote TYPE=CITE>And, no, I would not call it a recital hall piano, but for home use it was really dandy sounding! <a href="https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives"></a> </blockquote> I bet it was... they generally are. But .... well.. get to know them -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. UiB, Bergen, Norway <A HREF="mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no">mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no</A> <A HREF="http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html">http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html</A>  </html>