still plugging away at the ecossaise. hands separately are ok at an acceptable speed, hands together still painfully slow. as usual, with time it will come.

I have a Yamaha Clavinova CLP-340. I absolutely love my piano as it gives me virtually the same sound and response as an acoustic piano would, yet is a lot smaller and has the advantage of having MIDI and AUX outputs, as well as USB. Beautiful!

It'll be a nice little piece in your repertoire once you get it all sorted Keep at it!

I have a Yamaha U1 and a Casio Privia PX-720

Both I love though the Yamaha is so bright its chilling sometimes - good for popular, not so good for stuff like Satie, which I love.

Yamaha U1.

Our piano is an upright, apparantly made by John Brinsmead and Sons of London. I reckon it dates from the 1920s and therefore sits quite nicely in my 1930s house!

Can a tuner not fix this? I remember someone saying that the hammer felts could be pricked or something to make a softer sound?

I remember a conversation about this from when I bought my last piano, a couple of years ago. The company send a specialist round if it's necessary - perfectly possible but (in their case anyway) not done by the tuner. I seem to remember they said it could very easily be overdone ...

I do not have a piano!

My old upright, which I'd had for 40 years, became uneconomic to repair/recondition , so it did not accompany me on the move from England to Holland.

I do the majority of my practice at the practice rooms of an Arts centre, and supplement it with work on a Yamaha P80 digital. I also have access to three other nice pianos for a few hours a week, if I need them (like when the practice rooms are closed for the Academic break over summer).

I do have a "Piano Fund". It gets a monthly contribution, then whenever I fancy a bar of chocolate, or an extra beer, or a tempting new book, I forgo the pleasure and add the money saved to the fund. It grows surprisingly quickly. It contains enough to buy a small Yamaha grand, but I've now re-named the fund the "Bosendorfer Fund" so it is barely 15% of the way there.

How I empathise with this!
All my organ playing fees go in to my 'fund' but it will still be 10 years before I can afford even a used Yamaha (very much 2nd choice) let alone my Bluthner baby; more like 20 years for that.
Unless anyone has any sure-fire racing tips, that is......perhaps in the meantime I should raise my fees.

I did just have it tuned and he said the whole thing was sharp! so now its tuned right it is now a little mellower. Did you get it done in the end?

A Chappell “Elysian” upright around 80-90 years old, and a somewhat younger, although still 14 years old, Yamaha P150 electronic piano with 88 fully weighted keys. Plus I have my weekly lessons on a Steinway boudoir grand just to give me a taste of the good life!

Sauter Masterclass - beautiful!!

We have a 'Pinkham' piano which we are renting from Clive Pinkham who is based in Cornwall. I understand that he assembles quality parts and builds his own casings. He will deliver the piano to any location in the UK. free of charge and will adjust the action to suit your preferences. I personally prefer the action on the Pinkham piano to many of the new Kawai pianos (for example) which I encounter in schools. (I find the Pinkham much easier to 'control'.) It seems to me that you are getting a quality piano for an affordable price. I would be interested to hear opinions from anyone else who has one of these instruments.

Everyone who has played our "New Kawai" has loved it.

I would agree with Andante about the Kawai, everyone has loved mine, as much as I do.

My piano is a Moutrie 186 grand and I'm chuffed to bits with it, but I'm very disappointed that it hasn't made my attempts at Brahms violin sonata accompaniments instantly improve.. I guess I'll have to do some practice.
I'm now tossing up whether to buy and if so which budget digital to get, I tried a Yamaha YPG635 that I saw in a shop the other day and thought it was horrible, all fudgy and totally unlike any piano I've ever played, likewise a Casio thing, but the Kawai CL35 ( I think ) did sound a little bit more like a piano.

My life's sadness is that my parents didn't buy the (large) Bosendorfer grand they were offered when living in Germany back in the late 60s - The price? - 200DMs when the DM was 10 to the pound, ....or £20 !!!

I've noticed that my digital sounds ok "in the flesh", but on recordings via a mic, it sounds nowhere near as good as a proper acoustic...

Time to accellerate savings I think.

I have a Steinway concert grand which is going on towards its fifth decade. It is very, very beautiful, still totally serviceable and has been kept in tiptop condition by its previous owners, and I realise that I'm a very lucky man indeed to inherit it.

*searches for 'exteme envy' emoticon*
*Unable to find and settles for*

*because a)haven't used it before, and b) its kinda cute*

Looks like you've been on the Brandy again, my Deer!

I have a Bluthner upright aout 18 years old. I searched high and low for my perfect piano and Ive definitely found it!
I also have a Technics digital piano. Useful for all the extra voices and harpsichord etc. but give me acoustic over electric any day.

Hi,

We have A Steinway Grand Model O, a Shigeru Model SK 7 ( a wonderful hand built Kawai) A Yamaha U3 and another Yamaha with silent facility.