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So now this is Bedding World? Maybe bedding retailers will advertise here? And the extra money will forestall Frank's paid-subscription model?

I call dibs on the piano-bed!

I call dibs on the Sheet Music Bed sheets

Now the question becomes do the sheets have a compact folded action or are they elongated...................

Let’s just say that there is no action when one is one foot from the ceiling.

Aha! So that's why your former friend cut you off. You insinuated that nothing was happening in his bed?

LOL, they had two kids so something happened somewhere. I guess I appeared to be ungrateful for the room, sigh. I can often come up with the wrong thing to say, sort of know it is wrong, but say it anyway, realizing a second after I have said it that I should not have said it.

LOL, they had two kids so something happened somewhere. I guess I appeared to be ungrateful for the room, sigh. I can often come up with the wrong thing to say, sort of know it is wrong, but say it anyway, realizing a second after I have said it that I should not have said it.

I've been there myself many of times

+1.

. . . Who is the "she" who doesn't think that a "slab piano" is a piano at all?

If it's your daughter, she probably doesn't know enough, yet, to make the judgement. If it's a teacher, she's wrong (IMHO):

. . .The only difference between a "slab DP" (e.g., a Roland FP-90) and a similar "cabinet DP" is in their
. . . amplifiers and speakers:

. . . . If you wish, you can add good amps and speakers to a "slab DP", and still save money against
. . . the similar cabinet DP from the same maker.

Including your daughter in the decision is psychologically useful:

. . . She's more likely to play an instrument that she helped to choose.

But the parameters of the decision ("budget", especially!) are set by you, not by her.

It's funny that some piano teachers know so much about pianism and so little about pianos.

Well, I don’t know why I didn’t post this right away, but, I think the solution to your problem is a Murphy bed that folds up against a wall. I had one when I lived in a studio in DC and it was brilliant. I had room for a little dining area during the day and could push everything aside to pull down the bed at night

This was the picture my new interior designer showed me when she introduced the idea yesterday.

(...and MacMacMac, there is a piano in there somewhere... look harder! )

Nice minimalistic design, but I would not like having to do some stairs to go to bed. And I would not like to risk banging my head to the ceiling when I get up.

This would be for the flat in Washington DC. In our maisonette in the Amsterdam grachtenpand, our bed is on the 4th floor up a very narrow and steep spiral staircase from the 3rd. So going up to bed is already 'a thing' in one place, why not make it the same in DC too?

(obligatory: ... that is, thinking of pianos as we go up the stairs to bed!)

Sorry, but I don't like those steep spiral staircase either. They would make my head spin like... like a spiral staircase... and if I were a little tipsy after a party it could be a problem to go to bed...

P.S.: I think those 5 stair steps in the above picture are better than a steep spiral staircase...

Fortunately, there is a handrail for those of us who are teetotaller, and I've been known to drag myself up the handrail to go to bed once or twice (or maybe a few more times! )

(...all while thinking of pianos, to be sure!)

Well, isn’t that last step too low and with a lamp on that step, it would only be a matter of time before I put my foot in it or kicked it off the step.

Anyway, I figured out the real solution to your problem. Sell the studio and buy a one bedroom. Voilà! Problem solved.

Piano World's new logo ...

5 years and I will be selling the business and moving to either Paris or Amsterdam anyways (and dreaming of pianos MacMacMac... dreaming of pianos)

Five years is a long time to be stuck in a studio. The price differential between a studio and a one bedroom can’t be that great and DC prices aren’t as high as NYC prices.