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Paul Murphy wrote in MMDigest of 24th June 2003:

> Yesterday afternoon an auction closed on a 1911 Steinway player
> which, except for having a standard 88-note player and not
> a 65/88-note Themodist, could have been the twin sister of my
> piano.  The first and only bid was $5,000.
>
> What does that mean?  No interest?  That's possible, but I'd hate
> to think so.

Since there _was_ one bid, that means that the piano was sold at that
price, and the bidder would be held to his purchase.  It also means that
for the time listed (usually up to 7 days), not necessarily were there
no other interested parties, but no one happened to see it in that
time-span.  So the winning bidder was lucky I suppose.

Warning: eBay is addictive!  :-)

Ian Griggs,
Sydney