Bosendorfer Model 290 Imperial Grand Piano

Advantages: It's the ultimate piano
Disadvantages: None, cost maybe

...The Steinway Model D has been the acknowledged #1 piano for over a hundred years and with very good reason. The evenness of touch over the 88 keys is quite matchless, and each department moves into the next with no discernable difference. The bass and the tenor reaches make the hairs stand up on the back of my neck time after time after time. This is apparently due to the double crown in the soundboard. The totally remarkable action flatters your pianistic skill and those fumbling runs on other pianos become a positive pleasure to play as your fingers find new levels of skill. Above all I find it's a piano I want to come back to time and time again and has rekindled my desire to practice and improve. The ability to play from pppp to rfffz is quite mind-blowing and it is so easy to make parts in the middle ring out while those below... Read review

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Advantages: Combines the attributes of a top piano, with a reasonable size
Disadvantages: Still a little pricey for most people!

...My personal favourite in the Steinway family is the model B. It is a happy medium between getting a rich full-bodied sound, and space. The uprights, though super instruments tend to be a little weak, as do some of the smaller grand pianos. The Steinway model D (as I have said in my review) tends to be a little overpowering in enclosed spaces. The model B has all the sound attributes associated with a Steinway, but is much more suited to reasonable sized rooms. It is a piano, which has sufficient power to fill a small to medium, sized hall, but similarly could be reserved for home use, if you have a reasonably large room in which to house it. A perfect medium – buy one, if you can afford it!... Read review

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Advantages: The ultimate piano in every respect
Disadvantages: The cost and size

...The ultimate piano. Of all concert grand pianos this has to be the best by far. The richness of tone, the warmth, the range of sounds that can be made, and the touch – everything about this piano just makes it superb. Take a look inside any of the top concert halls in the country, and on stage somewhere there has to be a black Steinway concert grand. Ask any of the top pianists in the world and they will tell you just how good they are. Simply, if you can afford a Steinway concert grand, and have the space to house one – buy one! Space is a major concern. The length of one of these magnificent instruments alone is larger than an average room. To get the best sound out of one, you also have to consider the space in which the sound has to move. A concert grand in a room barely big enough to house the instrument will produce... Read review

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