shopping for piano

I stopped by colton pianos in 101; The salesman was very helpful: corey keating (www.coltonpiano.com) 408 986 9900
He demoed George Steck Pianos. These are built at: Sejung in Quingdao, China.
A 48" model was $2700 mahagony finish (delivery and tuning and bench extra).

Yamaha store salesman: David Blank quoted $3k for m425 piano ( i believe made in us ) and with bench and tuner. This piano is cherry/mahagony finish; made in the US; 44"; spruce keys and soundboard

Western music store in cupertino was renting yamaha for $50 per month.

blue book for pianos website lists retail prices;
im not sure what to buy at this point.


Both colton pianos and yamaha dealer have a policy of upgrading within 5 years where the full price of piano can be applied towards the upgrade.