what kind of pianos has everyone got?

hello! i have an upright piano, along time ago I had a yamaha U3 which its touch was good but sound wasn't that great, and since it got really old, I have a Kawai us-6x whose sound is alot better yet touch not as good as yamaha...

i have a steinway grand
an upright
and 2 keyboards (dunno wat type)

A keyboard, that makes the digital pianos at school look like Steinways in comparison.

Started with a Graham upright which my parents bought for £60 from a saleroom when they realised that I was reasonably musical. They just checked that it didn't have woodworm and that every key sounded and bid on it. Owned it for 5 years (didn't get tuned once and I wore the damp pedal out! ), but got me to grade 4 or 5. It was quite ugly and not great quality but I loved it.

Then, about 10 years ago when I was 13 my grandparents bought me a lovely challen baby grand
There was no room for two pianos so we gave my old upright (quite worn out by now) to a friend's little girl who had just started lessons and had a keyboard.

I have an upright Kawai which I love

An upright Woodchester.

Steinway Grand and Kawai Upright

Challen 988 upright.
Hupfeld baby grand.
Roland HP1300 e Digital Piano.
Yamaha SY 85 synth.
Various rack mount synth modules.

Steinway Model V upright

I have a boston upright.

Cripes! Lots of good pianos here. I have an old french thing, 85 keys - H. Bord is the mark. It's so bad. But I like it. I know it.

An upright Amylette.

Plus I have a Yamaha keyboard if that counts...

Car Expert

A Yamaha grand

Yay

I can vote now, my piano got delivered yesterday

I have an upright

*jealous* I have an Eavestaff upright that I love!

An upright Waldstein, but i would LOVE to have a grand piano. There's just no space to put it.

Indeed!

I have a Gors and Kallmann upright.

I have a Kawai upright.. an older model - k35

I have an Altmann upright (it's awful, but I'm kind of emotionally attached to the thing) and a nice shiny Yamaha electric piano.

I love my eavestaff! Its upright! Very sentimental, got it a few years ago when my great grandma died and my share of the inheritance was for a new piano

I have an 8ft 6" (2.4 metre) fully restored Broadwood "barless" grand made in 1924. It is a wonderful piano -really sensitive to the touch with a great feeling of depth to the keys.

The piano was given to me by a famous teacher when he had to move to a smaller house. Was I lucky!!!

I have a Rogers Eungblut upright (apparently a not-very-successful collaboration between Rogers and Bluthner, where the result was less than the sum of the parts). It was bought for me to play when I was about 10, the old one having gone to meet the great tuner in the sky. I inherited it when I was 10 and I love it but recently is has started to deteriorate audibly by the week (probably the result of being played at least 2 and up to 6 hours a day).

As of yesterday I have a Roland FP2 keyboard.

Next year I will have a Schimmel grand.

Oh look there's a flying pig! Kosher too!!

I have a Rogers and Son Grand, an Upright of some sort, its in Bb (the tuner said it would strain the strings if put into C) so not played an awful lot!

Laurence and Nash upright, built by a friend of my husband's. It's a lovely piano, and hidden inside it is the photocopy of a note Alfred Brendel wrote for the makers, to tell them how much he'd enjoyed playing the Laurence and Nash in the green room at one of the big concert halls down in London . Alastair Laurence made the workings, and Peter Nash the case.

YAMAHA upright

cool!

an aging Yamaha Clavinova (about 11 years old, but still largely working *cough* ok touch wood)
and a new (last year) Grotrian Steinweg upright.

It could work wonders for your transpositional skills though. (up a tone anyway!)

I have a Witton upright piano made in the 1930's I believe. It was a christmas present from my parents 4 years ago when I wanted to start teaching myself. It looks lovely but the action is incredibly heavy and slow making faster pieces much harder to play so I usually practice on the piano's in university. I hope to get a new piano within the next year or so once I save enough.

Mine's Witton, Witton & Co, dark wood upright, quite old fashioned looking but then that suits both me and my house Erm. Don't know anything else about it! I like it a lot, and it was given to me by a lady who couldn't take it with her when she moved house, and it's a better piano than I am a pianist

I used have a Bell upright but now its a errm forgot something upright! (I think)

I am very lucky to teach on a middle-sized 'boudoir' Steinway grand (belongs to my husband who inherited it from a relative). I also have an upright Knight, which my Mum used to teach on before she moved. Yes- the grand is like a 'ship in a bottle' in such a small room (8' by 12') but its just about okay. Would love a big studio one day!

Its all very well having nice pianos but Steinways are quite expensive to maintain. Oh well - all goes on the tax allowance and it is a beautiful instrument to play.

BB

I have a Kawai upright too! Is it by any chance a black one? XD I'm not so ''in'' when it comes to pianos but wondering whether they have different models...

I have a 120 year old (no exaggeration!) Collard and Collard upright. It still palys remarkably well...... there is one key with no string though!

I have a John Broadwood & Sons Cottage Grand Piano that was my grandmother's 21st birthday present back in 1918. It's seen quite a bit of history narrowly surviving a bomb explosion in the secong world war.

I am so jealous! I have the upright version of the barless from 1905 - my grandmother's, recently restored and beautifully too. I know Broadwood did some strange innovative things that didn't work - but some things they made were just wonderful and this is one of those (IMHO). Sensitive.... Depth... you ar so right and I'm glad your piano found a good appreciative home!

Yes it is black - not sure on the model though - I'll have to check that....

Amazing, you can't buy character like that! And presumably it would have been constructed as the first war wound down. It reminds me of an anecdote which I'm pretty certain was in Antony Beevor's Berlin - The Downfall 1945, where someone remarked on the surreality of seeing a piano which seemed to hover in the air on what would have been an upper floor of a bombed out shell of a building. Nothing else remained in the building. Very strange.

Me too! Me too! In cherry. Not the world's prettiest piece of furniture, but for the money a really nice bright tone and a good action. Mine needs tuning, though.

A Challen upright which is horribly out of tune and I must do something about it. I don't like it much because the keys are so heavy but can't change it without offending the people who gave it to me. It is a hundred times better than what I had before though - junk shop acquisition for £200 - can't remember the make except it was something London.

Challen upright c.1930 overhalled in 1980s and regularly tuned, a really light piano with a nice warm tone.

I saw a Bluthner Grand in our local music shop I was in love . Unfortunately I don't have the space to put it or the money to buy it, but it was lovely

I have a Hupfeld upright which is about 15 years old. It is very boring to look at and the highest notes are a bit weak but it was the best I could afford at the time and it has the advantage of staying in tune very well.

I loved the very first piano I had for about a year when I started learning. I have no idea what make it was but it was very old. It had mother of pearl inlay and candle holders, although my mother refused to put candles in and let me play by candle-light (I was about eight at the time). Unfortunately most of the notes didn't work and it was impossible to tune so when it became clear that I was serious about learning the piano my parents got rid of it and bought another very ordinary second-hand upright whose notes all worked (although tuning was never brilliant).

I recently came into ownership of a Rogers & Son grand piano and am looking for more information about it. The piano has no information as to where or when it was built. It is 4' 9", and the serial number is 192137. The piano seems to be well-built, but it needs to be cleaned up. I have been a tuner/technician since 1977 and have never seen this brand before. Do you have any information about this brand? I am located in Montana, USA. This piano may have been built in England.

A digital piano. I wish I had a real piano, but the digital's OK and at least I can use headphones when I play late at night.

An upright, Petrof piano.

A Kawai studio UST6 for teaching, a Hobart M. Cable upright player for fun, a rebuilt McPhail 5' 1" grand mostly for looks.

Geroge Rogers & Sons upright - Ca 1920 - Reconditioned 1980 - Lovely tone!

Mole

A W. Hoffmann 120 cm black upright acoustic piano, and a Yamaha CLP-240 upright digital piano.
Love the acoustic for its tone and dynamic ranges, and the digital for the amusing voices!

A reconditioned upright - Green & Marsh of Bath, probably from the first years of the 1900s. We've had it for about 12 years now and it's a good family piano, though the B above middle C is always the first one to stick . It sounds a little like Kerioboe's first piano - it's just possible to see the little filled holes where the candle-holders went, and I picked up some of these at an antiques fair some years ago. I keep meaning to put them on, but don't like the thought of drilling into the wood. It has some lovely Art Nouveau inset work with mother-of-pearl in the central panel, but this is always hidden by the music that's being played, and I forget it's there.

I always think ours has a really nice sound until I hear my son play on his teacher's piano