Should you buy or hire a piano?

I often come across people that purchased piano on Facebook Marketplace or got one for free from friend that was giving it away (in reality trying to get rid of it with no cost, as disposal of piano is paid service). Those are not always but often 20-40 years old instruments of very low quality and had no maintenance done on them in last 10 years, if ever. 

Free piano is never free.

Although getting a free piano might sound reasonable and economical solution for someone who is not sure whether they or their kids will stick to it in future, the sour reality is that you have to pay for removal usually $300-500, pay for tuning another $300 and often have it tuned again shortly after because it hadn't been tuned for years. With some minor maintenance you can easily reach cost of over $1.000 just to get started. And then you find out the piano sounds horrible, strings start breaking and you have no pleasure to listen to it. So what happen next? Either you have to pay for disposal or the cycle of free piano repeats.

Easy way to avoid this is to hire a piano technician to inspect the instrument prior to purchase. The other way is to hire a piano from us... 

Why is renting a piano reasonable? 

• All the instruments we handle are very good quality (usually top German makes, A. Förster, C. Bechstein, J. Bluthner, Ed. Seiler, Grotrian Steinweg, C. Ronisch or R. Lipp)

• You don't pay any maintenance

• Downsizing and moving without the piano are not to be worried about

• If you don't want to spend thousands on a good instrument

• When you don't want to commit long term

• You can experience very good pianos first hand

Are you looking for piano on budget or very good quality instrument? Only for few months or a couple of years? Get in touch francisfrmusic@gmail.com

You will not find any Asian made piano with us. Just because they are great in marketing, doesn't mean nobody else can make better piano. In fact.

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Why are old pianos still a good choice?

Carefully maintained and service pianos can last for many decades. While the hammers, strings and some other parts often need to be replaced after 20-30 years for optimal sound, the wood which the soundboard is made of still has to offer beautiful sound you can't replicate.