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nwhikerWe bought a grand piano last weekend. It's a 6 footer, so technically a parlour grand, iirc.
Needless, it say, it's used, but it's in great condition, sounds wonderful, and should be something dh and Perry -the two main piano users- will enjoy.
Delivery some time in the next few weeks. We ended up going with a piano dealer. Craigslist might have netted us a slightly lower price, but this was hassle free and guaranteed etc.
We can not return my MIL's spinet to her and no longer have to listen to my SIL proclaiming that her son would certainly be a small Mozart if he only had access to a piano, beyond the actually excellent digital piano we bought MIL of course (after MIL asked us to store her piano, because for various reasons it was inconvenient for her to keep it).
If this works, here is a Perry playing at the store: I cannot get the video embed to work properly, so a link it is. Hopefully this will work better.
Perry playing some movement from a Piano Concerto in C Major by Mozart... at least I think that it whats it is!
The store has a climate controlled room with the Very Expensive Pianos.... why no, we did not, in fact, shop in there! However, we did go to check them out, and they told Perry that he could go ahead and try the concert grand Steinway with the 100k price tag. Which he did. OMG, that piano sounded amazing! Still not going to buy it, of course. One thing that is interesting about its history: it was made in 1988, after the ivory ban was in effect, and yet it has full ivory keys. Nobody at the store knew how it had gotten past the ban, and the man who commissioned it has since died.
Neither dh nor I have slept in past 6am or had more than 7 hours and 25 minutes sleep in the past month according to my Fitbit (well, I technically had 8 hours a bit over a week ago, but since it registers asleep if you are in bed and not moving, and the reason I had 8 hours that night is because I was up half the night with a migraine, and finally got two additional hours after dh got me meds at 6am when his alarm went off. Why I did not wake him up earlier, or get meds earlier myself is beyond me.) Anyhow, not a lot of sleep, a lot of stress and anxiety and stuff like that, and I suspect we're not thinking at 100% capacity at this point. Which might be why we bought a freaking grand piano.
Needless, it say, it's used, but it's in great condition, sounds wonderful, and should be something dh and Perry -the two main piano users- will enjoy.
Delivery some time in the next few weeks. We ended up going with a piano dealer. Craigslist might have netted us a slightly lower price, but this was hassle free and guaranteed etc.
We can not return my MIL's spinet to her and no longer have to listen to my SIL proclaiming that her son would certainly be a small Mozart if he only had access to a piano, beyond the actually excellent digital piano we bought MIL of course (after MIL asked us to store her piano, because for various reasons it was inconvenient for her to keep it).
If this works, here is a Perry playing at the store: I cannot get the video embed to work properly, so a link it is. Hopefully this will work better.
Perry playing some movement from a Piano Concerto in C Major by Mozart... at least I think that it whats it is!
The store has a climate controlled room with the Very Expensive Pianos.... why no, we did not, in fact, shop in there! However, we did go to check them out, and they told Perry that he could go ahead and try the concert grand Steinway with the 100k price tag. Which he did. OMG, that piano sounded amazing! Still not going to buy it, of course. One thing that is interesting about its history: it was made in 1988, after the ivory ban was in effect, and yet it has full ivory keys. Nobody at the store knew how it had gotten past the ban, and the man who commissioned it has since died.
Neither dh nor I have slept in past 6am or had more than 7 hours and 25 minutes sleep in the past month according to my Fitbit (well, I technically had 8 hours a bit over a week ago, but since it registers asleep if you are in bed and not moving, and the reason I had 8 hours that night is because I was up half the night with a migraine, and finally got two additional hours after dh got me meds at 6am when his alarm went off. Why I did not wake him up earlier, or get meds earlier myself is beyond me.) Anyhow, not a lot of sleep, a lot of stress and anxiety and stuff like that, and I suspect we're not thinking at 100% capacity at this point. Which might be why we bought a freaking grand piano.
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