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Beautiful piano and what a happy day for you. Now play the heck out of it.

Great Piano and beautiful room. Many congratulations!

And never move out of your apartment.

Thanks for the congrats, everyone. And yes, she's a beauty although my father was visibly shaken. He visited me today - did not want to miss the show - and the old man jumped on the one and only litte damage in the polish (half the size of a penny) like a stinger missile. Other than this one tiny little spot the piano is immaculate. Dad was sad. I was not



Yes, in the 80s Hoffmann and Feurich actually were not independent companies but brands of the piano manufacturer Euterpe in Langlau, Franconia, Germany. Ten or so years later Bechstein bought Euterpe; the names Euterpe and Feurich have been sold and the modern pianos of these names have nothing in common anymore with the good old Euterpe instruments. Bechstein kept the Hoffmann brand though and builds quite nice mid range instruments under that name in the Czech Republik.

The Euterpe-Feuichs and -Hoffmans though are another thing. They definitly are not "just" quite nice mid range instruments. And yes, this Hoffmann is identical to the Feurichs of the periode. Look here: This is a 100% identical Feurich: http://klavierhalle.de/fluegel/feurich_fluegel_modell_190_343332728.html

Compare the images of its interiour with mine and you will not find many differences. Of course they used a different casting form because the brand name must be in there, but the structural layout is identical as is the model designation in the right corner.

Mine also needs tuning and a bit of voicing now, it was packed, shipped and stored for almost 4 weeks. Next week the technician will be here.

This is btw what ruined my fathers day.... he gets a bit strange lately

in UK, like the US "leer or beer"

in US *two syllables* like hire, fire or liar with the second syllable being the neutral, swallowed vowel sound called "schwa".

I like Spanish; five pure vowel sounds, only a few diphthongs and silent letters almost non-existent. If you can read it, you can say it; if you can say it you can spell it.

Congratulations on a beautiful piano. I am sure you are going to love it!

It's hard to tell from the photo how bad that mark is. It may mostly polish out if it's just a surface scratch.

I'm from the UK and I've only ever heard it pronounced the US way. It's the same word as the small harp and is pronounced the same way with two syllables.

Paul.

WOW Thorsten! What a beautiful looking AND sounding piano. Congratulations:-) This makes me wonder if its worthwhile to come to Germany from the States, find and purchase an instrument like this, and have it brought over. There are plenty of used instruments here but it seems to me that you can get a used piano of the highest caliber over there at bargain price comparatively speaking.

Having it for a day now I really like it a lot. The sound is really ... grand. I am fighting a bit with the action. I learned piano as a kid on a awfull little upright, I stopped to play because this upright was so terrible that I could not develop my skills any further and it was no fun anymore. Then I did not play at all for at least 16 years before I bought a Yamaha Clavinova. Which I also did not play often, because after 16 years I simply could not play anymore.

Six months ago I decided to take lessons agan and now, 21 years after stopping to play, I am on a pretty good track. Still not great pieces, Bach Inventions for example.

And now I have my Hoffmann and as I said: The action is a new beast. I forgot how my upright felt, but I can tell you, that Clavinova feels nothing like my grand piano and I am accustomed to the touch of a digital now. I know enough to realize that the Hoffmann has a really nice action, but it will take time to learn how to play it properly.

For that reason I will definitly not post any real music pieces anywhere for quite some time, but of course after you helped me in my decision to find it, here are a few chords

https://soundcloud.com/user-468992210/klangprobe

When the tuner comes next week we will discuss if there is a need for some voicing. And I have to add some accoustic absorbers or diffusors to the room

Cheers
Thorsten

Hi.

I also thought that when I saw the prices pianos go for in the USA.

New pianos are quite a bit cheaper in Germany. I found a brand new Yamaha C7X for roughly 50,000 USD and a pristine looking C7 from the 80s for under 17,000USD.

A rebuild Blüthner Mod. 6 (190cm) will usually cost 15,000 to 20,000USD. The only problem is to find the really good ones, because of course you are not really buying a Blüthner or Bechstein or Bösendorfer, when you buy a rebuilt instrument, you buy the technician who did the work.

Oh, memories from the past!! Made me escape the olde country!

Now my kids accuse me of same...

Enjoy your piano "despite"

Norbert

It‘s not a German thing, Norbert. It‘s an old guys thing.

But give it some time and it will be fixed. Although I really see no benefit in it (If you don‘t know it, you won‘t see it and if you know it, you will see it only when you kneel down in front of the instrument), I am certain that Dad will keep nagging about it until I surrender just to make him shut up.

You know, what they could not make me do when I was a teenager living with my parents 20+ years ago with „Solange Du deine Füße unter meinen Tisch stellst .....“ they can make me do easily today by just complaining.... and complaining. ..... and then they complain a bit more......

The only reason my car has an alarm system is because when Dad saw it the first time he said: „Nice car. Are you not afraid that somebody steals it?“ - „No.“ - „You should be. You should install an alarm system“ - „No“ and then he kept pushing me for days, even calling me in the evening: „Hey Thorsten, you remember, you wanted to install an alarms system in ...“ - „Ah, no, you wanted me to install an....“ - „Yes, yes,yes, you know I found a great offer in the internet, you should really take a look....“

In the end you pay the money just to make the old man shut up