Piano Candidate Comparison Worksheet

After the third showroom, the pianos start to merge in memory: the warm one with the heavy action, the bright one with the scuffed lid, the one the salesperson kept calling a bargain. This worksheet gives each candidate a row and each thing that matters a column, so you score tone, touch, condition and the full delivered price on the day you play the instrument rather than a week later. The scores are yours; a 1 to 5 scale is enough, and the notes column is where the real decision usually gets made.

Fill it in alongside our Piano Showroom Evaluation Checklist, which tells you what to play and what to look for, and treat the example rows as prompts rather than recommendations: they describe types of instruments and buying paths, not particular makes. The price column should hold the full figure with bench, delivery, stairs, setup and the first in-home tuning, and if a dealer quotes a monthly payment instead, the Piano Financing Payment Calculator turns it back into a total. Once you have two or three finalists, the Piano Ownership Cost Calculator and our article on what makes a concert grand worth its investment help you weigh the premium against the years you will spend with the instrument.