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What’s wrong calling an older Steinway Piano “Used”?

by Varon Deny on Aug 9, 2010

It was in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet where we first heard the line spoken by Romeo who said: “What's in a name? That which we call a rose/ By any other name would smell as sweet…”
What does all this mean for us? It means that it matters what something is, not what it is called. So what does this have to do with pianos? Especially “used” Steinway Grand Pianos? The only kind we trade at www.American-Steinway.com?
Well it means just about everything! You see, the word “used” in our society, sounds old, decrepit, wasted, and ready to be discarded. We could sit here and fret about the lack of respect some “old” is, and how we tend to look at society’s older people as used-up. But with pianos, this isn’t necessarily the case. “Used” doesn’t have to have such a negative connotation. And especially with pianos—it is just a cliché for saying that is has been played and/or owned by another owner. That is all. It doesn’t mean...Read More >>