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I have asked a piano tuner cum teacher to have a look. He told the same thing: it's not an outrageous price, but it's reasonable for the amount. By the way, I m located in Singapore. The amount quoted is inclusive of moving & tuning.
Just to ask, does the age matters? If I'm buying for my child for grade 1 learning, is it acceptable?
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10 years down the road, if I want to see, will it be value for money? Yes, age is a killer of pianos. The hard materials deteriorate from exposure. Strings rust. Wood swells and contracts from indoor humidity changes. Structural wood is under a lot of pressure in a piano.
The glues that bind can begin to weaken over time.Your climate is very rough on pianos if you don't have a closed indoor environment. Soft materials like leather and felt deteriorate from the same climate variations and also from flexing under use.
There is no exact predicatability of how long all this will take, but there is a definite pattern. Earlly Yamahas U1's have already outlived what was predicted for them by many. You could use some local knowledge of pianos, piano sellers, tuners and techs. You might want to post on the Adult Beginner in Singapre thread. It's been running on this form for several years and there's a lot of local knowledge available there.
Go to the last page. If you got 10 years from $1500 and then the thing collapsed on the floor, you'd have gotten tremendous value for money. The cost would have been a little over $12 a month. However, if you got increasingly poor playability, short interrvals betweeen tunings, and needed a bunch of expensive reparis to keep the thing chugging along during that time, it would be a different story. The best idea would be to have it thoroughly inspected and then weigh profits and loses from owning such an old instrument. All the points stated in this thread are valid and should be taken into consideration.
I will only add my two cents, that in place where I live it is rare to find an instrument YOUNGER than 70s, most sold pianos are from 70s or 60s. They sell for much higher prices (over 4000$ for a Yamaha U1) due to limited market. Animasi bergerak assalamualaikum. And, if they haven't been beaten to death, they can work marvelously. I have myself played several instruments that old that sounded even more beautiful than new pianos. All preowned by private owners and treated with care during their years.
Though it may seem improbable to have a good 40 years old piano on sale, it is not entirely impossible. Just be extremely cautious, like with everything, and you will be fine. It's a box of wood and metal after all, it really does deteriorate with years.