Can't give them away: Vintage upright pianos are meeting a sorry end

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2. new piano sells arent hot either. even tho

piano makers r refusing to promote the 1st innovation on the instrument in 100 yrs, the reduced size keyboard.
i’ve been trying to buy 1. steinway invented them about 100 yrs ago, but they keep it a secret. they made 1 for barenboim, but made him sign an nda. it did finally expire.
an advocate for this works w piano makers, including steinway. she talked to them, and others. steinway wd only do an upright, w a $10k upcharge, even tho it costs basically nothing.
there is a company in germany who makes them. i cd have gotten 1 from them. $60k including shipping here. similar upcharge.

i talked to the steinway dealer here. he’d never heard of it. tried to tell him that every suburban dad wd have a reason to buy a NEW steinway for their gifted daughters, but nah, not interested.
yamaha dealer was equally uninterested.

longtime big new/used piano store here just went out of biz. and it’s def true there r free pianos everywhere. but it’s been like that for quite a while. a big moving company by me has a ‘piano orphanage’ cuz they couldnt bare to always dump them.

i am getting a digital 1. finally going into production. $2500, which is 3x what i paid for my yamaha. there’s a company in europe that makes a rly beautiful 1 for $5k. no idea how they r selling, but they’re also starting to make replacement boards.
atm, it costs about $10k to convert.