buying a used piano

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The price for the piano should be $0 not $300. There is almost no market for old upright pianos since the new digital pianos have improved so much in quality and are much less cumbersome. We are paying to get rid of our piano (I tried and couldn't give it away) because of an upcoming move.

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You can pry my piano from my cold dead hands. Digital has nothing on a beautifully weighted Steinway.

[Anonymous]

Agree that you should get a tuner or technician to look at it before you pay to have it moved. When we sold my mother's piano, a tuner told us that it is almost impossible to properly tune a piano that hasn't been tuned in a long time. My mother's piano was a great make, and had been well maintained, but we still got very little for it.

[Anonymous]

For $300, you don't have much to lose. Budget $500 to move it and $200 to tune. For comparison, I paid $2500 for a used, basic upright piano from a piano shop when my kids started lessons but this included tuning and moving the piano.

My suggestions is to wait until your kids start playing before buying a piano, because you will need to tune the piano about once a year (at $200 a pop) to keep it in decent condition.