It is important that when you are in the market- either brand new or second hand – that the most appropriate one is selected. Some people, especially those who are just starting to learn, may not be aware that many are different. I’m not referring to the obvious such as digital versus acoustic, but rather each brand will have a different timbre, touch, feel and “weight” when being played. With this in mind, by selecting a piano which isn’t appropriate could in fact be detrimental to you playing ability and technique, not forgetting the potential to lose money in the purchasing of the piano.

Essentially there are only 2 types in the market to be considered when purchasing; the Acoustic and the Electric (commonly referred to as the Digital Piano).

Acoustic Pianos
This is the most common types on the market and they are essentially the oldest and most typical in the standard design. They don’t require any electric current to play them and rely solely on the pianist pressing the relevant key which then strikes the string in the casing of the instrumnet. Arguably, they are considered more complex – certainly good examples of master craftsmanship – as compared to Digital Pianos.

Within the this range there are two other styles – the Grand and the Upright, sometimes also referred to as the Vertical Piano. The Grand has a vast range of size from roughly 4 feet to 9 feet in length, often containing up to 10,000 important parts. Within this range, the description is dependent upon its size. The smallest if often referred to as the Baby Grand, through to the Concert Grand, which is the biggest of all the Grand Pianos. Each style of Grand Piano is prominent with a curved right side and a straight left side and the lid can be raised to help direct the sound out of the piano. Some of the most sought after Grand Pianos include makes by Steinway and Sons, Fazioli, Yamaha, Kawai, to name a few.

The Upright Piano, also known as the Vertical appears a lot smaller than the Grand Piano. The Upright is the most common of all piano styles due to its cost and potential portability. Having less parts than the Grand Piano at no more than 6,000 parts, there is a general belief that the taller the back on the Upright Piano, the better the piano action is inside. However, this is debatable. Although popular with homes, school and village halls, some Upright Pianos are actually better than some Grand Pianos with many of the most reputable Grand Piano makers also manufacturing Upright Pianos as well.

Digital Pianos
For the past 20 to 25 years, Digital or Electric Pianos have seen a huge increase in popularity. This is probably due to the development of the Digital Pianos in response to the demands of the piano market. The early Digital Pianos can be seen to have been developed from the more traditional electric keyboards or Synthesizers and nowadays, many of the keyboard and synthesizers available today have taken on board many of the specifications found in Digital Pianos. For example, many keyboards have full size keyboards (88 keys), the keys are weighted, have similar responses when played etc. The early Digital Pianos often had either very basic specifications and/or primitive sound like qualities. However, with the development of the Digital Piano market, these have greatly improved. Many of the today’s Digital Pianos have the same specifications such as internal speakers, a variety of sounds, in-built metronomes, demonstration piece’s, headphone sockets, etc. In addition, many have 88 keys and use pre-sampled sounds as their onboard instrument sounds rather than being synthesized sounds. Favoured also for their lighter weight and potential portability, Digital Pianos are gaining strong popularity with homes, schools and even piano teachers. Again, just like the Grand Piano and Upright Piano manufacturers, many are also producing Digital Pianos, apart from Steinway Pianos. Common and popular ones are made by Yamaha, including the Yamaha Clavinova, Kawai, Technics, Roland, Akai, and more.

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Are you, buying a piano based on emotion, or are you really committed to learn it and play it regularly? Whether people buy new or second-hand pianos, 9 out of 10 times their pianos end up ignored in their living room or basement. If youre about to start piano lessons or still at the beginning stage, you should consider a used piano until youre more certain about your commitment to continue.

New Pianos

You should purchase your new piano from a reputable dealer in your area that can offer you a manufacturer-backed warranty. Ask local piano teachers what piano dealers and brands they recommend. If you take good care of your instrument, it should last you 50 years or more.

Dont buy a piano based on its fancy appearance; select the one with the best internal mechanism. There are many things to consider when buying a piano such as: action, strings, hammers, sound quality, etc. A piano tuner can evaluate these factors and help you to make an informed decision.

Second-Hand Pianos

Used pianos can often offer you a lot more value for your money, provided theyve been well-maintained. A good quality piano that is 2 or 3 years old is as good as a new one if its in good condition. One of my students purchased a 2 year old baby grand piano at a 40% discount from someone who was no longer using it. The first time I saw it, I thought it was a brand new piano.

Dont buy second-hand pianos over 60 years old, unless theyve been reconditioned and have brand names. Also, avoid buying pianos from schools, churches, and/or public places because they get a heavy use and many times are neglected. If you buy from a private seller, ask if he/she can include tuning and delivery with the purchase.

Whether you decide to buy a new or used piano, you should have it inspected by a professional tuner-technician. The fee for this service is small compared to the risk of paying too much, or ending up with a lemon.

One last option you may want to consider is to rent a piano. Some stores apply the monthly fees to your purchase if you decide to keep the piano later on. Find out what other charges you may incur in either case before making your decision.

Buying new or second-hand pianos wont be a complicated process if you do some research and get the necessary advice to ensure you end up with a quality instrument that youll enjoy for many years.

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With the flashing help button you will get some advice but it will be proved more favorable to the shopkeeper than you. You will notice that most of the time the shopkeepers will force you to buy the pianos that are on the opposite side of your choice. There may be basically two reasons behind this. One may be they want to get rid of that particular piece of instrument and the second reason may be that they want to gain more profit by selling that instrument.

If you are the one who has experienced this kind of situation then here are some of the suggestions that can help you in future to come out of the situation like this. There are different kinds of digital instruments in the market. If we know the types and their features it will help us while buying them.

The first comes the digital musical instrument. It is the most popular piano in the world of today. They are in the top position with the help of their branding techniques. It has got the rating measuring out of ten which is nine in number. This piano was not popular earlier but the improvements they have made have resulted in the growing demand of these pianos.

They are not costly but they are really cheap digital pianos. These are used as they give a fantastic value. The main advantage of this piano is that they can be used in the place where there is a shortage of the area. Next is the Roland digital piano. They are built with quality products and produces fine quality of sound. This are reasonably priced but there performance cannot be compared to the other digital pianos.

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Choosing the right type of piano is extremely important – a good piano will develop good sense of touch, build up finger strength & dexterity, build up the correct sense of pitch… and so on.

What types of piano do we have?
Three centuries ago, what we call a piano is something that looks like a harpsichord, but sounds differently. Nowadays, we have mainly concert grands, baby grands, uprights, and even electronic pianos. Besides, there are so many choices of brands – Steinway, Yamaha, Kawai, Young Chang, Pearl River, Bosendorfer…

Given so many choices, lets go through each of type of pianos:

Concert Grands
Those 9 feet long grand pianos which you see at concerts. These are the best pianos one can ever afford, Steinway is famous for their concert grands – many classical pianists prefer them.

Concert grands touch are very heavy (compared to others), but this heavy touch enables very beautiful tone and color to be generated. If you are a good piano player, and if you do have lots of money and a big room to accommodate your instrument – the obvious choice is to go for a concert grand.

Baby Grands
Baby grands are usually 5 or 6 feet grand pianos – which is about 2 feet smaller than the “normal” grands. The smaller size enables it to be fit into a smaller room, however from experience, you need quite a large room for the baby grand to sound nice.

Baby grands touch are still quite heavy but not as heavy as a concert grand. If you have lots of money and a moderately large room to place your piano, baby grands is a very good choice. Furthermore, some people see baby grands as a beautiful furniture.

Uprights
Upright pianos are the most common piano. Unlike a grand piano, the uprights strings are placed vertical instead of horizontal. This makes the mechanism totally different from grand pianos, so the touch is also very different. (Dont worry though, if you have started with an upright, you will have no problems playing a grand – just that we need some time to adapt to the heavier touch)

A lot of people prefer uprights because they are more affordable, requires less space to keep, and it has a damper pedal so that the sounds are muffled. By pressing the damper pedal, the volume immediately turns down – this enables practicing even late at night without giving neighbors headaches.

Electronic pianos
I personally do not recommend buying an electronic piano, despite being the most affordable and the most compact.

Electronic pianos has the advantage of being able to produce many instruments sounds. But trust me, by giving in to these fancy sounds will really sacrifice the development of correct touch for the piano. At least, up to now, I have not come across any good electronic pianos to match with my 5 2″ Kawai BL61. They are not even as good as my 20 year old Pearl River.

Maybe one day I will recommend electronic pianos when the touch can match a concert grand.

What to consider when buying a piano?
Many things, to be honest.

1) Budget / Price: How much are you willing to spend to buy an instrument? For example, you definitely do not want spend a few hundred thousand bucks on a concert grand, if you are just starting to take lessons.

2) Space: How much room do you have for your piano? If you need a good piano, but do not have room for a grand piano – a tall upright is the solution.

3) Tone & touch: This really depends on your personal likings. You need to test playing the pianos yourselves before selecting. Even if you are just starting to take lessons, try to press the keys – do you like the sound? Do you like the touch? How loud and how soft can the piano go? Are the keys responsive enough – if you press hard, do you find the sound goes loud enough, and if you press softly, does the sound goes soft enough?

Other important tips when buying a piano
1) If you know a honest piano technician, it is always good to ask him/her to help you on piano selection. He / she will be able to look at the internals of a piano to tell whether it is in a good condition or not. Bring your technician to the piano shop and ask him to try them out.

2) If you do not know a piano technician, why not bring over your piano teacher / instructor? Teachers definitely has better piano knowledge than beginners.

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Choosing the right type of piano is extremely important – a good piano will develop good sense of touch, build up finger strength & dexterity, build up the correct sense of pitch… and so on.

What types of piano do we have?
Three centuries ago, what we call a piano is something that looks like a harpsichord, but sounds differently. Nowadays, we have mainly concert grands, baby grands, uprights, and even electronic pianos. Besides, there are so many choices of brands – Steinway, Yamaha, Kawai, Young Chang, Pearl River, Bosendorfer…

Given so many choices, lets go through each of type of pianos:

Concert Grands
Those 9 feet long grand pianos which you see at concerts. These are the best pianos one can ever afford, Steinway is famous for their concert grands – many classical pianists prefer them.

Concert grands touch are very heavy (compared to others), but this heavy touch enables very beautiful tone and color to be generated. If you are a good piano player, and if you do have lots of money and a big room to accommodate your instrument – the obvious choice is to go for a concert grand.

Baby Grands
Baby grands are usually 5 or 6 feet grand pianos – which is about 2 feet smaller than the “normal” grands. The smaller size enables it to be fit into a smaller room, however from experience, you need quite a large room for the baby grand to sound nice.

Baby grands touch are still quite heavy but not as heavy as a concert grand. If you have lots of money and a moderately large room to place your piano, baby grands is a very good choice. Furthermore, some people see baby grands as a beautiful furniture.

Uprights
Upright pianos are the most common piano. Unlike a grand piano, the uprights strings are placed vertical instead of horizontal. This makes the mechanism totally different from grand pianos, so the touch is also very different. (Dont worry though, if you have started with an upright, you will have no problems playing a grand – just that we need some time to adapt to the heavier touch)

A lot of people prefer uprights because they are more affordable, requires less space to keep, and it has a damper pedal so that the sounds are muffled. By pressing the damper pedal, the volume immediately turns down – this enables practicing even late at night without giving neighbors headaches.

Electronic pianos
I personally do not recommend buying an electronic piano, despite being the most affordable and the most compact.

Electronic pianos has the advantage of being able to produce many instruments sounds. But trust me, by giving in to these fancy sounds will really sacrifice the development of correct touch for the piano. At least, up to now, I have not come across any good electronic pianos to match with my 5 2″ Kawai BL61. They are not even as good as my 20 year old Pearl River.

Maybe one day I will recommend electronic pianos when the touch can match a concert grand.

What to consider when buying a piano?
Many things, to be honest.

1) Budget / Price: How much are you willing to spend to buy an instrument? For example, you definitely do not want spend a few hundred thousand bucks on a concert grand, if you are just starting to take lessons.

2) Space: How much room do you have for your piano? If you need a good piano, but do not have room for a grand piano – a tall upright is the solution.

3) Tone & touch: This really depends on your personal likings. You need to test playing the pianos yourselves before selecting. Even if you are just starting to take lessons, try to press the keys – do you like the sound? Do you like the touch? How loud and how soft can the piano go? Are the keys responsive enough – if you press hard, do you find the sound goes loud enough, and if you press softly, does the sound goes soft enough?

Other important tips when buying a piano
1) If you know a honest piano technician, it is always good to ask him/her to help you on piano selection. He / she will be able to look at the internals of a piano to tell whether it is in a good condition or not. Bring your technician to the piano shop and ask him to try them out.

2) If you do not know a piano technician, why not bring over your piano teacher / instructor? Teachers definitely has better piano knowledge than beginners.

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Choosing the right type of piano is extremely important – a good piano will develop good sense of touch, build up finger strength & dexterity, build up the correct sense of pitch… and so on.

What types of piano do we have?
Three centuries ago, what we call a piano is something that looks like a harpsichord, but sounds differently. Nowadays, we have mainly concert grands, baby grands, uprights, and even electronic pianos. Besides, there are so many choices of brands – Steinway, Yamaha, Kawai, Young Chang, Pearl River, Bosendorfer…

Given so many choices, lets go through each of type of pianos:

Concert Grands
Those 9 feet long grand pianos which you see at concerts. These are the best pianos one can ever afford, Steinway is famous for their concert grands – many classical pianists prefer them.

Concert grands touch are very heavy (compared to others), but this heavy touch enables very beautiful tone and color to be generated. If you are a good piano player, and if you do have lots of money and a big room to accommodate your instrument – the obvious choice is to go for a concert grand.

Baby Grands
Baby grands are usually 5 or 6 feet grand pianos – which is about 2 feet smaller than the “normal” grands. The smaller size enables it to be fit into a smaller room, however from experience, you need quite a large room for the baby grand to sound nice.

Baby grands touch are still quite heavy but not as heavy as a concert grand. If you have lots of money and a moderately large room to place your piano, baby grands is a very good choice. Furthermore, some people see baby grands as a beautiful furniture.

Uprights
Upright pianos are the most common piano. Unlike a grand piano, the uprights strings are placed vertical instead of horizontal. This makes the mechanism totally different from grand pianos, so the touch is also very different. (Dont worry though, if you have started with an upright, you will have no problems playing a grand – just that we need some time to adapt to the heavier touch)

A lot of people prefer uprights because they are more affordable, requires less space to keep, and it has a damper pedal so that the sounds are muffled. By pressing the damper pedal, the volume immediately turns down – this enables practicing even late at night without giving neighbors headaches.

Electronic pianos
I personally do not recommend buying an electronic piano, despite being the most affordable and the most compact.

Electronic pianos has the advantage of being able to produce many instruments sounds. But trust me, by giving in to these fancy sounds will really sacrifice the development of correct touch for the piano. At least, up to now, I have not come across any good electronic pianos to match with my 5 2″ Kawai BL61. They are not even as good as my 20 year old Pearl River.

Maybe one day I will recommend electronic pianos when the touch can match a concert grand.

What to consider when buying a piano?
Many things, to be honest.

1) Budget / Price: How much are you willing to spend to buy an instrument? For example, you definitely do not want spend a few hundred thousand bucks on a concert grand, if you are just starting to take lessons.

2) Space: How much room do you have for your piano? If you need a good piano, but do not have room for a grand piano – a tall upright is the solution.

3) Tone & touch: This really depends on your personal likings. You need to test playing the pianos yourselves before selecting. Even if you are just starting to take lessons, try to press the keys – do you like the sound? Do you like the touch? How loud and how soft can the piano go? Are the keys responsive enough – if you press hard, do you find the sound goes loud enough, and if you press softly, does the sound goes soft enough?

Other important tips when buying a piano
1) If you know a honest piano technician, it is always good to ask him/her to help you on piano selection. He / she will be able to look at the internals of a piano to tell whether it is in a good condition or not. Bring your technician to the piano shop and ask him to try them out.

2) If you do not know a piano technician, why not bring over your piano teacher / instructor? Teachers definitely has better piano knowledge than beginners.

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