Piano buying advice??

[jeff300]

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The only good reason to buy a Steinway is to stroke your ego.

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and why do guitar player pay several THOUSANDS of dollars to get bogners/vht/diezels/engls/mesas and guitars that cost sometimes at least the same as such amps instead of Line6 amp and a variax ? ( okay some do [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]) same stuff ,

no offense btw ;-)

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I totally agree, bro. [img]/images/graemlins/toast.gif[/img]

But then again, you can buy a '57 Strat, a '58 Les Paul, and all the amps you listed for less than what a Steinway Grand costs.


I once did some consulting for a billionaire who was getting into music. He wanted "something that feels like a piano, but has many sounds like a synth". Despite my recommendations for the best digital pianos of the time, he bought the most expensive Steinway full grand, and had it hacked up and fitted with special triggers to drive a Roland MT-32 tone module. When I saw what he had done I nearly **** a brick. It cost him $75,000 and what he had was a totally **** up shitty sounding synth with a nice keyboard. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[Newc]

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Digital VS Real - can't play the Digital in a power outage [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

Newc

[lerxstcat]

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Unless you're buying it as a piece of furniture I would also recommend a good digital piano instead. They've been touch sensitive for about 20 years for those of you talking about hard/soft notes, and have weighted keys so they feel like an acoustic piano. You don't have to have a professional
piano tuner in once a year to tune up the digital, and when you move it's not a huge deal top move it. Again, unless you have room and money for a grand piano, a digital will be much better than an upright acoustic piano as far as versatility, maintenance and control of tone. Just get an 88-key model and disregard the piano teacher's sniveling.

[lerxstcat]

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Newc, get a 12v booster/jumper and a power inverter and you CAN play the digital in the power outage. And you CAN'T (easily) haul an upright piano down to the club and set it up on the tiny stage.

[beaner]

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Lot's of good advice. Thanks again. I would love to get a digital. My wife is the one pushing this though. Not that I'm complaining, I love the idea of getting one, but it's her deal. To say she's low tech would not be correct. She's more anti-tech. I don't think I could possibly talk her into that, though I'll try.

[Top Jimmy B]

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We have a Baldwin 243 and it sounds great and plays very well. Yamaha makes a quality upright and they are priced reasonably.

[pro-fusion]

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I also say go for the digital--a lot less hassle. The wife of one of my friends is a piano teacher, and they are both very picky about their pianos--they have three of them, including a Steinway. But they got a digital piano, in part, for the students to play on during lessons. Even the very non-techy wife/piano teacher has been known to enjoy playing the digital on occasion, though the tone is nowhere near that of a good piano. But a digital will sound as good as an upright, if the ones I've tried are any indication.

BTW, my friend has told me that Yamaha is the only Asian piano that he and his wife like--he specifically mentioned Samick as a real POS.

[skarhead]

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They've been touch sensitive for about 20 years for those of you talking about hard/soft notes, and have weighted keys so they feel like an acoustic piano.

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ok , lerx I think you're talking to me [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

i know that there are digipianos that are touch sensitive , but as far as experience of my mother goes ( a pretty looong experience , she is playing since about 30/40 years minimum) she says it isn't perfect. maybe that have been changed, maybe it's just the point of view of my Mom .

i think that there should be a difference in tone ?? I don't know .

I don't play piano now ,i was never at pro level so i can't tell , i just asked her.
Tell us what have you decided to get .

[lerxstcat]

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Rebert DeNiro - Taxi Driver! [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]I'm not discounting your mom's experience, but also many older traditional people in all professions including music, don't welcome the modern stuff. Many classical guitarists still see the electric guitar as an abomination, but many people love electric guitars, don't they? Digital pianos are just lighter, less maintenanceand work fine for taking lessons or playing at home. You don't have to hire a mover to move one either. If you're moving into a house where you know you'll be for life then it's no big deal. If you think you'll be moving every couple of years, it's a recurrent PITA to move a normal piano. Since our other classically trained pianist (Em's husband) says they all aound about the same(like playing a piano in a box) it seems the digital piano would be a better choice for that reason too. You can record it line direct and process it if you don't like the initial sound. That's a bit more hassle with the upright, which inherently sounds weak compared to a grand. Plus the digi can go to the studio, wheras the studio has to come to the boxy-sounding upright.

[tmmsjm]

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I'd recommend a Baldwin - maybe a 2096 or a 5050, but what do I know.