All About Choosing and Buying Pianos

[jce]

All the top piano makers are good in their own right, at standards like this, it is the player that matters. You need a good player to bring out the best in the instrument.


Have you tried Bosendorfer? I think the uprights are available here.

I have the U5, it’s been with me for almost 13 years now. Started off quite bright but now it has mellowed, almost to the verge of being muffled at times…

Try brand new pianos and then see whether you can find the same model but secondhand, that way you can more or less anticipate what it’ll sound like after x number of years

[KKKS]

I am not sure there is a Schimmel 121? Perhaps it is C120. They used to have C124 but now is C126. I almost bought a Schimmel some years back because the piano we tested had a clear bell sound.

[LovingBrahms]

jce:

All the top piano makers are good in their own right, at standards like this, it is the player that matters. You need a good player to bring out the best in the instrument.


Have you tried Bosendorfer? I think the uprights are available here.

I have the U5, it's been with me for almost 13 years now. Started off quite bright but now it has mellowed, almost to the verge of being muffled at times...

Try brand new pianos and then see whether you can find the same model but secondhand, that way you can more or less anticipate what it'll sound like after x number of years

Is there an upright Bosendorfer within 20k?? :?

[pcslim]

Hi, i just bought a 2nd hand yamaha. dealer threw in a freebie - a slow-fall device (i think looks like a V-shape hydraulic device) that can be pasted on the wooden part (extreme end of the piano keyboard) by rather stong double-sided tape. dealer assures me that it can be removed without disfiguring the wood surface. I’m a bit apprehensive about it. anyone has this pasted next to their piano keyboard?

[ksks3mum]

pcslim:

Hi, i just bought a 2nd hand yamaha. dealer threw in a freebie - a slow-fall device (i think looks like a V-shape hydraulic device) that can be pasted on the wooden part (extreme end of the piano keyboard) by rather stong double-sided tape. dealer assures me that it can be removed without disfiguring the wood surface. I'm a bit apprehensive about it. anyone has this pasted next to their piano keyboard?

What's that for. How much u bought this 2nd hand paino? Good buy?

[LovingBrahms]

I had a student has that slow-fall device attached. The mum purposely bought it as she was worried the piano lid might accidentally snap onto the kids fingers. It works as well as the in-built ones in recent pianos.


For marks, you can always clean it off using those appropriate cleaning chemicals. If you have young kids, it would be good to have that around just to have that peace of mind.

[ngl2010]

LovingBrahms:

I had a student has that slow-fall device attached. The mum purposely bought it as she was worried the piano lid might accidentally snap onto the kids fingers. It works as well as the in-built ones in recent pianos.


For marks, you can always clean it off using those appropriate cleaning chemicals. If you have young kids, it would be good to have that around just to have that peace of mind.

How to remove scratches caused by books?

[LovingBrahms]

ngl2010:

LovingBrahms:

I had a student has that slow-fall device attached. The mum purposely bought it as she was worried the piano lid might accidentally snap onto the kids fingers. It works as well as the in-built ones in recent pianos.


For marks, you can always clean it off using those appropriate cleaning chemicals. If you have young kids, it would be good to have that around just to have that peace of mind.

How to remove scratches caused by books?

If there are really a lot of scratches and very obvious ones too, you can send it for repainting and polishing at piano workshops. But its going to be quite expensive. . .

An unorthodox manner that was used on my friend's piano when a tuner dropped his screw driver and caused a huge scratch on her piano was, he simply used a black marker to colour onto the scratch. Pissed my friend off very very badly though.

[ngl2010]

LovingBrahms:

ngl2010:

[quote=\"LovingBrahms\"]I had a student has that slow-fall device attached. The mum purposely bought it as she was worried the piano lid might accidentally snap onto the kids fingers. It works as well as the in-built ones in recent pianos.


For marks, you can always clean it off using those appropriate cleaning chemicals. If you have young kids, it would be good to have that around just to have that peace of mind.

How to remove scratches caused by books?

If there are really a lot of scratches and very obvious ones too, you can send it for repainting and polishing at piano workshops. But its going to be quite expensive. . .

An unorthodox manner that was used on my friend's piano when a tuner dropped his screw driver and caused a huge scratch on her piano was, he simply used a black marker to colour onto the scratch. Pissed my friend off very very badly though.[/quote] :yikes: black marker??? I would be pissed too...

We got a lot of scratches from the books I guess we just have to live with it. I thought there are chemicals that can hide the scratches....

[phankao]

LovingBrahms:

I had a student has that slow-fall device attached. The mum purposely bought it as she was worried the piano lid might accidentally snap onto the kids fingers. It works as well as the in-built ones in recent pianos.


For marks, you can always clean it off using those appropriate cleaning chemicals. If you have young kids, it would be good to have that around just to have that peace of mind.

What kind of cleaning chemicals?

I just use 3M cloth to polish. The wood these days seem different. Last time, my old old piano (when I was kid), I really use Lemon Pledge and it worked great. My piano now just use cloth and rub nice nice to a shine.

I leave my piano lid open, so always need to have 3M cloth to standby and wipe all the dust and \"oil\" off the keys. But then having an open piano means my little 4yo would play on it every so often when he walks past the piano. Can be exploring tunes of his own or tunes he's heard before, or even working out his own songs that he's doing for lessons.