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Consumer Tips: Choosing Your Piano

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Purchase Pointers

Purchase Pointers

Here's a good starting point in developing that brief list of criteria for choosing the right piano:

  1. What are the performance requirements of a piano for you?
  2. Where will you place the piano and how much space is available?
  3. What is a comfortable investment target that will allow you to select the best tonal quality and responsiveness in that investment level?

With just a little knowledge, choosing a piano can be one of the most exciting purchases of your lifetime. Here you will find some tips for selecting the right piano to meet your needs. Making music is an enjoyable and satisfying experience. The right piano will bring endless pleasure to your musical endeavors, and enjoyment to your family and friends.

Know The Manufacturer

When buying a piano, you may be unfamiliar with manufacturers, manufacturing methods and materials, and the current price range of various sizes and styles of pianos. A visit to our showroom will give you an opportunity to consider a variety of pianos with varying grades of quality from each of the manufacturers we carry. With over fifty years of experience serving Northwest communities, our professional sales staff can help you determine the type of a piano to choose and the quality of piano that best meet your needs.

Get Professional Guidance

We encourage you to bring your musical advisors with you to evaluate which instruments will meet your criteria. Our knowledgeable sales staff will take time to acquaint you with quality products that will meet your needs. This will also give an opportunity to become acquainted with our technical service staff and support, and to review the factory warranty protection that is serviced by Prosser Piano & Organ.

Grand Piano in Living Room

Know the Piano Market

In choosing a piano, it can be helpful to be aware of the many economic factors that have brought about a radical change in the piano market place. The production of generic instruments labeled with familiar brand names and the mass production of generic instruments designed and produced by unrelated foreign manufacturers has made it difficult for consumers to truly identify brands and assess the quality. When you visit our showroom, you'll have access to a variety of pianos and organs that are superior in quality and sound all hand-picked by our professional Prosser Piano staff.

Get an In-Home Consultation

Need assistance in choosing your piano or scheduling an in-home consultation?
Visit or call your nearest Prosser store today. Or you can contact us now by filling out our contact form.

Prosser Piano often schedules a free home consultation (in the Seattle - Tacoma area) and will provide the use of vinyl piano patterns of different sizes for you to lay in your designated space, this will allow you to measure how much space is required when moving in your new piano. This will assist in determining not only where to place the piano, but also what size of piano would best fit in the space you've chosen. As an added bonus, a home consultation visit can generate some new ideas on the options of available styles, finishes and room acoustic considerations that might not have come up in previous discussions. Your level of aspiration and the style of your home can greatly influence the type of piano that is best for your needs within a comfortable price range.

Our in-home consultation can also evaluate the trade-in value of an existing piano you have. We've even been able to immediately offer a trade-in value of your instrument or even assist in delivering it to another family member that can take advantage of using the instrument.

Our Commitment to Continued Support

With Prosser Piano & Organ our service does not stop with your purchase of an instrument. We are committed to your being able to fully enjoy the instrument you purchased well into the future. Prosser Piano services both factory and company warranties through our Prosser's Piano Service, ask your sales associate for details when you purchase your instrument.

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