Cheap But Decent Piano

DeanStevens

I am looking to buy my wife a piano for Christmas. As a child she played the piano to a high standard but has not had the chance to play one properly for over ten years now. So i thought it would nice for her and the children to get her one for Christmas.

The problem is that there are lots of them on ebay. All different prices, styles etc....

Does anyone know what type I should get. My budget is about £200 for an upright piano and I am happy to buy it second hand.

Any help appreciated...

ruthyjo

Our upright piano was free. We just had to arrange transport from its previous owners house to our own. It is quite a normal thing to do to give a piano away, largely because once no longer wanted they are quite awkward to move etc and not really worth anyone's trouble to buy (especially if you're only talking about £200).

My mum and dad gave away my childhood piano and my sister has another freebie in her house. Note - if this is sounding a bit mad neither of us live anywhere near our parents.

The cost of our piano was £55 which we paid to a local company of specialists to move it.

I would try putting a wanted ad on your local freecycle or maybe in a newsagent or similar.

Good luck!

mshelsbels

Yes, I got my piano free too from freecycle - it is absolutely gorgeous and is very old and full of character! The lady who I got it from said it belonged to her grandfather and told us lots of stories about how he and her granny used to sing songs and play the piano together! How lovely!
Here's the link so you can get started:
http://www.freecycle.org/

Symbeaux1

dont you have to have a piano re-tuned if you move it ?

janthemum

Yes I agree with the above. people seem only too happy to part with their no longer used old pianos for nothing as long as you remove it. My DD friend could not get rid oftheir old piano for "love nor money".
They needed the space so ended up moving it into the garden as I suppose a 'music feature.
Not so sure how musical it would sound after a few downpours though and dont know if Mr Titmarsh would approv! It does seem a shame though.

Incidently we recently bought my son a piano and went for the only British make Kemble as appose to Yamaha which seems o me to be most popular make however new it cost £3,000, and that wasnt going over the top apparantly on a anew piano.

We are advised to tune it a month after it arrivd and then 6 monthly at £50 a time maight eek that out to 9 mths though. it can be an expensive thing the tinkling of the old ivories.
My son bless him gets his monies worth practicing 3 or 4 hours a day.