Diki..., on the subject of Steinway pianos I want to share a story with you. It was many moons ago that on a regular basis I played the most beautiful sounding piano in my LIFE and to date have NEVER found another acoustic piano that outperformed this one.

When I was in highschool our school piano was a Steinway. It was an older Steinway too, and if memory serves me correctly it was a donated piano (and in all honesty.., what public school can afford to put a Steinway on their stage). Again, this piano was an older one (can't remember the model number or year it was produced.., but I think it was just around the turn of the 20th century). Man was this thing perfectly AGED too. The sound from this piano was like the finest bottle of wine..., BUT a bottle so perfect where each individual grape was hand selected and went through a strick inspection before being juiced.

I can't even tell you how many times people who played on this piano and even piano tuners who were the one's lucky enough to do the job turned around and wrote letters to the schoolboard in an attempt to buy that piano. People would request special permission to use the schools audit. just to get access to that piano.

I have many fond memories playing on that Steinway. Many skipped classes, missed lunches, missed hallway smooches with girlfriends, all because of that piano. Hell I even made love to a language teacher on that piano my senior year!

Like I said.., to date I have never found another piano like that one. I often wonder if the school still has it and what condition it's in today.