I happened to get quite lucky with this instrument, as it was in very good overall condition. Most of the time however, you will not find a square grand in such good shape. You should be prepared to spend a lot of time, and even more money restoring a square grand. You might well spend more money on it than it will be worth. These are large instruments, and the market for them is quite small.
Few people have the room to house such a large instrument.
Musically speaking, square grand pianos are not the equal of today's instruments, they sound somewhat different and the action feels different, but they are a piece of piano history and are worthy of study. Copyright 2000 Greg Flannagan.