Schimmel is generally a good company with a good pedigree, and it's regarded as a solid and reliable piano in Europe, so I'm virtually certain the company wouldn't put their name to a piano that was in any way trash.įourteenth post. I hope that there might be some sense in what I've written.

Even digital pianos over there seem to be verging on twice the price of the same instruments over here.

I can't comment on the prices since it seems that prices in the USA are vastly different to those in Europe. At this stage I wouldn't worry about things like resale value since speculating about that is generally pie in the sky, and many of us have known for years that even Steinway doesn't hold its value quite as well as the company would have you believe. I wouldn't worry about which factory the piano was made in, before that I'd worry that the piano was technically sound, and that I liked the touch and tone. Sometimes people will go for the second line of pianos because they want a longer piano than they could otherwise afford, other people simply don't see the point in paying for the flagship product when the second line is more than good enough for them. This wouldn't put me off buying one if I could afford it and I liked the piano. The other thing to get sorted out in your mind is that just because it's a lower quality piano than the flagship product, doesn't not mean it's a low quality piano, so the dealer is most probably right when they say it's a high quality piano, but it's not equal to the flagship Schimmel. Bechstein Academy (formerly Bechstein B series), and it's true for Yamaha's CX series vs their higher priced CF and SX series. This is true for Haessler and BlÃ¼thner, which are actually both produced in the same factory just outside Leipzig, it's also true for C. What it has never done for any maker, is offer the customer a piano of equally high quality to the company's flagship product, so I think it's important to get that straight now. Firstly, it offers them a chance to reduce labour costs, and secondly it offers the customer a high quality piano at a reasonable price. Schimmel, there are a two reasons why Schimmel would opt to produce a second line of pianos in a different factory. They're probably around the same price range as Shigeru Kawai which is one of my favourite makes. Bechstein, BlÃ¼thner, or Hamburg Steinway, but they are good pianos and in this country priced accordingly somewhere below the other prestige German makes, but above Yamaha. Schimmel, but I do have some experience with Schimmel, and they are high quality pianos, not quite in the same league as C.

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