Buying a Used Piano Online
Thinking about buying asecondhand pianos without touching or playing it? Though it may look to be an “out-there” thought to a concert player or a professional piano player, the fact of the topic is that numerous pianos are sold on eBay day-after-day – the main rationality is prominent potential savings you may end up with by purchasing a piano on the net.
The two Types of Piano Sellers on eBay:
2 Kinds of piano seller are to be considered on eBay:
- The one-time private party piano seller selling a piano for any number of reasons:
This type of seller seldom describes the secondhand piano in a sufficiently detailed style. Unless you send a master piano tech to audit the piano the only potentially honest data you can use is mostly from a visual aspect and a subjective ameteur ear.
BOTTOM LINE:You are taking a big chance!
Also do not forget that piano moving is expensive! Definitely have the piano verified by a professional piano technician if you are serious about buying a piano online. Do not presume that years has anything to do with the condition of the piano, as this is one of the most common misconceptions about the condition of a secondhand piano!
- The regular piano seller.
This seller could be a piano technician with only a few instruments or a huge piano store with some overstock items.
These sellers should be able to answer the following concerns.
Presuming that the piano seller is reliable you can then ascertain on how much you should pay for the piano!
6 Questions You Must Require When Purchasing a Used Piano On eBay:
1. Where was the piano manufactured (metropolis and country) and when? Every piano brand has lower quality pianos made word-wide and this is a sure way to find out what class of used piano you are considering.
2. Is the pin block in respectable enough condition for the piano to hold its tune for a minimum of 6 months?
3. If the piano was rebuilt has the pin block been changed?
4. Was the piano ever near to a body of water, a bathroom or in a moist basement?
5. Just like with a car’s brake pedal you can find out how much the piano was played by asking how deep the groove is on the hammers (1 to 3mm is ok)- or even better get photographs of the hammers.
6. THE SOUNDBOARD! This aspect of a piano is not as important as you might think!(I own a Steinway with 5 cracks in thes oundboard and it has a delicious tone)!A good thing to know is – if cracks are present are they making any distortion or buzz when the piano is played loudly?
In conclusion we would once more advocate having any piano purchase above $2000 checked by a qualified piano technician.
Good luck and happy bidding!
The used piano dealer team at pianoseeker.com
