Four generations of the Schimmel family have since managed and grown the family-owned business. The company was founded 1885 by Wilhelm Schimmel in Leipzig, Germany. Their product line has been described as 'the most highly awarded German piano'. Personally, I'll stick to my Bösendorfer 290, thanks, except that, as it's such a pity that it exists only in my imagination, I'll more than gladly put up with my 1896 Steinway in the interim and hope that I can eventually manage to afford to have it fully and lovingly restored (it badly needs it, poor thing!). Schimmel is a German piano maker with factories in Braunschweig, Germany and Kalisz, Poland. If a Falcone can be found, this, too, could be a good possibility (if my limited experience of them is anything to go by), although I believe that none were ever sold outside USA and they went to the wall several years ago after only a short production period on the premises also occupied (I think) by Mason & Hamlin in their second or third manifestation (what about one of those? - not that I've any idea what their modern instruments are like - I only have one that's about 75 years old and used to have another one older than that). Subject to budgetary considerations (as "soliloquy" mentions), it would indeed be remiss to overlook Faziolis - or even the Australian Stuarts (although I think that these can turn out to be pretty expensive). This all sounds to be sensible advice on the instruments so far considered.
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