Thanks to all for your suggestions. To clarify a couple of points raised. The wall behind the right third of the range is even and level with everything to the right of the range. I believe it's because it's one piece of sheetrock that comes to the frame behind that part of the range. The left 2/3 of the range is slightly skewed or recessed. Again, I think it's because there's a new piece of sheetrock and slightly recessed framing behind that part of the range and wall (apparently the framing wasn't touched by the new contractors and it was an unevenness that existed with the house). In any case, the range can never be flush because there are 2 "different walls" behind it. I like the thought of covering the gap with SS to make it look like a filler piece that likely won't get noticed and will cover the gap, as well as cost much less. The contractors actually suggested that as well as a possibility. By the way, our contractors did everything except floors and granite. The granite and floor guys were great - they actually noticed other areas of unevenness but because there was no continuous granite, I think the granite guy didn't notice it and simply squared each piece of granite to each respective piece of wall. We've discussed the "should" of the contractor having to cover it. We'll see now if they do what they should because they should have caught this earlier. Depressing, sad, etc... The thing is, the contractors are actually really good, creative, etc. -- they are just CARELESS and HASTY. It's the craftsmanship that seems to be lacking these days. BUT, we're just about done and will post pictures of the final product soon. Thanks again.

A grand or a baby grand piano? A grand needs a 15x 20’ space so nothing else in this room. This space is 15 x25’ I have my baby grand straddling the space between the DR and this space it is a bit small but works.

As shown above, just come a third of the way down from the ceiling, it will be great!

Do you have the paint color of your cabinets? Were you planning on having crown molding on your walls and around cabinets, or just your cabinets? If you have access to the paint color, you could make/get made tiny wedge pieces to fill the gap just above the face frames. And still do molding on the walls and sides of the cabinets. I think the cleanest option would be to get new doors, so that you have room for crown everywhere. If you chose doors that only overlap the top face-frame by maybe 1/4” and you give 1/4” clearance, that would give you space for a 1” min crown even where the cabinet is tight, and it would grow to just under 2” where there’s the most gap. You could also lower your cabinets by an inch to make the variation in the crown width less noticeable.