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Topic: C Bechstein 'used' L167 - is this price reasonable  (Read 97 times)

Offline trainboiloco

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C Bechstein 'used' L167 - is this price reasonable
on: October 27, 2025, 04:19:41 AM
Hi! im new to this forum and wanted to ask some opinions about a potential purchase of a C Bechstein baby grand. I'm an amateur player for a couple decades and considered myself intermediate-advanced level. I'm looking to buy a baby grand piano. I visited a local dealer today and tried a C Bechstein L167. It was really nice, I love the sound and the touch/feel. The sales guy said this L167 has been there for 9 years (im waiting for Bechstein customer service's email but roughly looks like it was manufactured about 10 years ago in 2015) and has been used as a showroom piano. I was offered $75k before tax and delivery. I checked online that usually 10 year old grand should get about a 50% depreciation but its very hard to gauge the usage on this one. The hammers all look very new, no traces of any grooves at all. so its hard for me to know if i should consider its 10 years being very light usage or moderate/average usage. Also the new L167 seems to get all kinds of MSRP prices. I found online some goes as low as $105K and as high as $145K. its greatly beyond my budget so likely (like 99% of the chance) i won't get it  :-[ but i wonder if this a reasonable price? thanks for your attention

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Re: C Bechstein 'used' L167 - is this price reasonable
Reply #1 on: October 27, 2025, 04:21:58 AM
I should add that by showroom piano I mean: probably any customers like me going into the store can try a bit on it. not like its just sitting there and no one is allowed to touch it lol. The sales guy did mention that it was never moved since the store got it and was tuned on a yearly basis
 

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