However, there is almost certainly going to be some form of compromise when selling a piano. If you’re lucky and you market your instrument right, you’ll come across the right buyer at the right level, who is willing to pay the right price. The deciding factor is going to be how much the buyer is willing to pay, and how usable the piano is to a pianist. When you move outside of this coveted realm of brand names, you are much more at the mercy of the condition and age of the piano. While condition and age factor into it, people will by a Yamaha over a Kawai or a Feurich or similar brands, just because it’s a Yamaha, even though another piano might be more suitable for them. You will find people looking for a Yamaha or a Steinway, just because it’s a Yamaha or Steinway. Yamaha and Steinway are two examples I mention, due to the fact that these pianos hold their value so well in the upright market and the grand market respectively. If you are selling any kind of piano, as long as it’s outside the realm of Yamaha, Steinway, Kawai, etc, the primary factor that will determine its’ selling price is condition.

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Be sure to have a competent technician check it over for you - and advise you as to a fair price. It probably doesn't make much difference how old the piano is at this point (73 or 77 years). Please advise! Kimball may have stopped production for a time during the war, but between 19 they still managed to produce a good number of pianos. The piano is in good condition but do not want to pay $2,000 US if it is not worth that. I also understand that it is difficult to assess the value of a piano without close examination of numerous variables. I understand Kimball stopped production between 1943-1945 due to WWII yet the online piano bluebook would seem to indicate the serial number fell in between these years. I am considering purchasing a used Kimball Baby Grand Piano (serial #470465) and would like to know the approximate age of this Piano.

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