Larry Fine is the publisher and editor of Acoustic & Digital Piano Buyer and the author of The Piano Book. His PianoBuyer.com website provides free online versions of Piano Buyer in both Flash and HTML formats, archives of past issues, and searchable databases of acoustic and digital pianos.
A Registered Piano Technician, Fine has been involved in the piano industry for 35 years.
Hi Larry,
Will you be including Wilhelm Steinberg Pianos in your book?
They still make an all German piano and seems to be impressive as they still use old world machinery, so i heard.
Yes, Wilh. Steinberg is in the book.
Hi Larry,
I bought your Acoustic & Digital Piano Buyer book. I used to have one of your books that has the grading of pianos like1A being the big five:Bosendorfer, Steinway, Fazioli, Bluthner etc. May I know which of your books has this ratings? I cant seem to find it in the Acoustic and Digital Piano Buyer Book. Thanks very much.
Ray
The ratings are in Acoustic & Digital Piano Buyer, in the chapter titled “The New-Piano Market Today.” The subtopic is titled “A Map of the Market for New Pianos.” In the current, Fall 2011, issue, it’s on page 44, but that will vary from issue to issue.