There is no way around it, you have to build around it.
These are instruments wasted in the homes of the idle rich, to be sure. But the touch on such a wonderful piano makes its own demands--it is so much more sensitive than the instruments I ever learned on, or as a piano teacher, have the fortune to teach on.
It can also create the ethereal quality of the music of Claude Debussy.
Often, hands accustomed to such magnificence cannot pound away at the everyday instrument--I wish.
The days of being able to teach at leisure, to a few students with the time on their hands to be traditional in their course of study, are long gone. While I would hope that all my students could someday be great concert artists, it is my goal, and my profession, to bring pleasure and understanding, and a sense of achievement to those who may have difficulty finding these things.
Most of them will never play such a great instrument.