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Topic: Help! Approx Value of This Steinway?  (Read 1906 times)

Offline pianodnub

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Help! Approx Value of This Steinway?
on: February 11, 2013, 01:24:32 AM
Please help. I am getting a new piano. I am first buying a crabby steinway, and then I fix it for around $4000 to make everything perfect. The only thing i need help with is I dont know the approx value of a 7-foot steinway. Please give me the real prices, not prices you see in stores. Currently, i know 2 pianos.  price: $10,000, and price: $16,000

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Re: Help! Approx Value of This Steinway?
Reply #1 on: February 11, 2013, 05:17:11 AM
How old is it?

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Re: Help! Approx Value of This Steinway?
Reply #2 on: February 12, 2013, 12:35:06 AM
Location matters.  Age matters. Model matters.  Condition matters.
If you want a grand sorted out, refurbished, at a reasonable shop rate, check the prices of the reseller that advertises on the Lexington, KY craigslist.  He refused to buy the 1941 40" console I paid $1000 for , but did pick up a 1910? full Steinway upright in Shively in good condition for $300.  My console has veneer damaged by lead wheeled children's toys of the 1950's. 

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Re: Help! Approx Value of This Steinway?
Reply #3 on: February 12, 2013, 05:44:28 AM
How old is it?
its around 80 years old. no cracks on soundboard. just bad strings, action, keyboard, and horrible look on outside. Thatll all be fixed, so i just want to know the approx value of a 7-foot steinway in that condition

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Re: Help! Approx Value of This Steinway?
Reply #4 on: February 12, 2013, 06:39:54 AM
So how much are you paying initially?  My tuner says you can't touch a steinway that has a good sound board for less then 10,000$.  I went to see a similar instrument that was a little older, still in good condition, and the owner decided to let Steinway in London have it for 15,000$.  They would fix it up like new and sell it for 22,000$-

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Re: Help! Approx Value of This Steinway?
Reply #5 on: February 12, 2013, 11:22:29 PM


its around 80 years old. no cracks on soundboard. just bad strings, action, keyboard, and horrible look on outside. Thatll all be fixed, so i just want to know the approx value of a 7-foot steinway in that condition
thanks

5-7k tops.
Dan Silverwood
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If you think it's is expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.

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Re: Help! Approx Value of This Steinway?
Reply #6 on: February 15, 2013, 10:21:17 PM
It varies so wildly. Its impossible to appraise a piano without an expert looking at it. The technician that I study with picked up an S (5 foot 1) in great shape for 3500. It was near the beach so the strings and pins became a little corroded. Changed the strings and tuning pins and flange pins and sold it for 21K. He's now working on an O (5' 10+) that he picked up for 1500.  They both sounded good when he got them. Sure, deals of a lifetime, but you really can't put a 5-10K price tag on an unseen piano. If you restring it and get a complete regulation and it still looks like a beater, maybe 10k. As stated, location means a lot too.
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