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Well, as the title implies, which brand or specific model that you want to die with?
I mean, which piano you wish to own when you are about to die, or which piano you wish to play as the last piano you play in your life?

I find myself to seriously fall in love in Steingraeber. Despite not personally played one, but I have heard recordings that impressed me a lot. The first time I listen to the recording of a Steingraeber 205 has frozen me for seconds before I regain my consciousness. Several recordings on the 130 also impresses me on the strong bass and singing treble.
Regarding 'singing' treble, listening to Steingraeber makes me understand what is meant by 'singing' for a piano tone, after reading so many posts on 'xxx piano has a singing tone.'

Of course, the model of Steingraeber will certainly be a concert grand, and probably be in exotic wood finish.

Okay, I am ready to die if I own and play it.

(Guess I have to work hard to earn the piano, or else I won't be happy if I die without playing and owning Steingraeber & Sohne)

Actually if you bend my knees I'd just about fit into my square (minus strings and action). So that's ideal!

Hmm, nice idea.

Perhaps we could make custom order for our coffins to be in gran piano shape. What a nice way to die!

Why not just save a little extra money, buy an entire area of the cemetery, and take the Steingraeber with you? Of course, since you won't fit in a hearst, the procession to the cemetery will look strange being led by a truck with something like Alfonso's Piano Movers on the side ....

Well, let's see...there's pair shaped and apple shaped. For a grand, I guess one would be top heavy, huh?

Big head, broad shoulders, I mean...

But seriously, you've got it right. I'd play/own the concert Steingraeber during my last breath if I could.

I will rather die a normal way then. LOL..

Best to buy a piano that doesn't die before you do!

A wonderfully rebuilt rosewood NY Steinway C with ivory keys

I want to die with curry's piano.

(He has to die first though, I suppose )

Gee Rich. I was going to be buried with my 214's action on top of my corpse, but I guess you can have the rest of the piano.

A new Hamburg C would work for me just fine!

A perfectly prepared M&H BB.

you'd have to be pretty skinny (or decomposed) to close the lid

Craigen,
I'd have to agree with you on the BB. It's the one for me, too. Although I don't plan to go anytime soon.

You have a square??

I'll be unpopular saying that I want to be buried with my modest upright piano. I grew up with a foul out-of-tune beast of a piano that I bought aged 8 with my christening money saved in an account for me (even then I knew there was only ONE place I wanted that money to go!)We knew nothing about pianos and it was a terror! Aged 19 I sweated and laboured singing and playing abroad and came back with the cash for a brand new piano. I went to Chappell's of Bond St (London, right?,)where'd I'd gone since being little to buy sheet music and always hankered after their pianos, and bought this upright in 1983. How can I say? It's an extension of me...my first 'proper' piano. I hope to have many others in the future but...

Does that make me really pathetic???

I really don't want to die with a piano. I was thinking more along the lines of Alicia Witt. Whatever ppiano she has will be just fine.

I might prefer a clavichord. So beguiling, wistful, sad, heartbreakingly evanescent.

I'm in total agreement with mikhailoh on this one!

Why bother dieing with a piano.

Anyway, once you dead - you dead. Even if a loved one of mine wanted buried, burned, interned, whatever, with a paino I doubt I'd follow through - ESPECIALLY if it was as nice a piano as a BB. Maybe my parents old Wurlitzer, I might throw that in the fire!

A 60’s Lindner (very appropriately destined for a hole in the ground), and someone might think I’d be a fitting burial companion for having suggested it..........