But as the world-famous pianist from Canada waited for her movers to haul away the hulking instrument, the movers tiptoed into the control room and told Hewitt they had some difficult news to break. And broke it to the point that the concert grand piano could not be salvaged, Hewitt said in a Facebook post this week. In an email to The Washington Post, Hewitt described the acoustics of her piano in a grand concert hall as “heaven." He estimated that a top-tier, custom-made Fazioli grand piano would cost somewhere between just under $200,000 to $250,000. Paolo will probably provide her a wonderful new piano, but it won’t be the one she fell in love with."

Source: Washington Post February 12, 2020 11:53 UTC