If I had to buy a grand for practice for big venues, I'd look for a 20's to 60's Baldwin, whose brand reputation has been destroyed by the **** the brand owner is selling now. But I have very slightly constructed hands, appropriate to hunting deer with an atlatl this may not be a problem for a person of European or African or Oriental conformation. About 40 minutes on a grand in a nearby church wears me out, with tendons starting to complain, not just the muscles. I never did practice on a grand, and am limited by strength and training to consoles, which is not a tragedy in my economic class and cultural niche, but I won't be playing Carnegie hall with these hands. If your son wants to perform on a large stage someday, he'll need to build up the muscles necessary to play a standard action grand piano. There is one craft brand still made in the USA but he is not big enough to support showrooms. The US piano manufacturers are now Steinway, and nothing. The old US woods are holding up fine at 100 years, we'll know about the siberian and indonesian woods in about that long. If you must buy something newish, there are still some old line piano manufacturers in places like Czechoslovakia and Germany that presumably are using the traditional woods, instead of the mystery wood the oriental manufacturers are using.

Seattle is a hotbed of piano sales if you are in the west. The nearest such city near me is Nashville, TN, but I can't tell what part of Canada you are posting from. For this much money, I would suggest visiting a large city and cruising the used and new showrooms, to find out what is available. While grands are in general have a heavy action to a person that has been playing on a console, some are heavier than others.

The action was very inconsistent at low volume.Ĭhanging the weight of an action is very difficult and expensive, and IMHO, not worth the effort. I played a Wurlitzer post shutdown console last year, it was a piece of ****. The Wurlitzer factory in NY was shut down in 1988, according to wikipedia. that would be after the sale of the Wurlitzer brand to a global corporation that uses the cachet of this fine old name to sell quite possibly second line or third line imports.

How much is a wurlitzer piano worth