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Thanks for doing this excel sheet! That must've been a pain to compile.

Happy Holidays!

Nicolas

My pleasure! It took about a day all told, mainly due to Word's lame search and replace. The minute you need to use wildcards you give up the ability to search for hard returns. Macros are kind of a cruel joke - overly complex and so too painful to use unless it's that or shoot yourself in the head.

I miss Wordperfect for DOS, which was super simple yet ironically much more powerful when it came to this type of editing. You could search for something and then select everything to the end of the line, or the beginning of the line, or the end of the document, etc. I also miss AMI Pro, which made WYSIWYG document creation a breeze. I've used Word for going on 20 years now and much of it still strikes me as needlessly awkward.

There's still Unix. Or Linux. Or Cygwin (for free) on Windows.
You could pilot a starship with grep and sed.

By the way ... I have a similar spreadsheet, which includes the older prices-paid thread ... if anyone's interested ... with 668 entries.

Ha ha!

You could built and pilot the starship with Perl, but the code would be impossible to read.

But to make it truly intelligent, you'd have to write it in LISP ... and it would be IMPOSSIBLE to read.

USER LOCATION: Aiken, SC, USA
MAKE: Kawai
MODEL: MP6
CONDITION: New
PRICE PAID: $1370 USD
DELIVERY CHARGE: free
VENDOR LOCATION: Online
VENDOR NAME: Sweetwater
PURCHASE DATE: 11/28/11

USER LOCATION: Lisbon, PORTUGAL
MAKE: YAMAHA
MODEL: CLP-230 PE
CONDITION: NEW
PRICE PAID: EUR 1249 (assembling charges incl.)
DELIVERY CHARGE: included
VENDOR LOCATION: Lisbon
VENDOR NAME: www.euromusica.pt
PURCHASE DATE: December 2011

Eduard: The CLP-230 model went out of production in 2008, replaced by the CLP-330. That, in turn, went out of production this year, replaced by the CLP-430. So it surprises me that you were able to find a new one. Also, I didn't know that they offered that model in the PE finish.

USER LOCATION: Denver, CO, USA
MAKE: Kawai
MODEL: MP10 + Stage Stand + Bench
CONDITION: New
PRICE PAID: $2,500
DELIVERY CHARGE: Included
VENDOR LOCATION: Franklin, Wisconsin, USA
VENDOR NAME: Kraft Music
PURCHASE DATE: December, 2011

So what DPs are people buying?

When you have a sorted spreadsheet of this thread (see a few posts up) you can query it for info such as this:


I guess I'm a bit surprised that Kawai > Roland (due to more limited Kawai availability).

And also that Casio is in 4th place, I would have thought higher.

But Yamaha dominating is what I would have predicted (for various reasons).

Is this a general measure of the sales by each company?
Or is it an expression of the preferences of Piano World members?
Or is it representative of people's willingness to share?

Ups, typo! CLP-320

Thanks MacMacMac

Total sales by company in this thread. Beyond that who can say? It might stimulate some interesting conversation though.

Interesting. Do you have at your fingertips the median price paid for each brand? Some of Yamaha's dominant position is surely due to its diverse product line, covering all imaginable price points.

No, too many different currencies for me to do that easily. But the makes and models are grouped in the sorted spreadsheet, which makes getting a feel for the price of a single model pretty straightforward.

Here's some more info, the top selling models (4 or more units) from the top four manufacturers:

Hmm. I expected more RD700NX (and MP10) users. I guess those that have them are more active than average.

Hmm... Does that mean that the stage pianos are less fun to play?

I think stage pianos are just more daunting to the general DP buyer. Gotta get a stand, probably at least some kind of headphones, and for many you've got to cobble together a music rest (!).

... and ... making a nice dust cover for it...