All About Choosing and Buying Pianos

[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.

[LovingBrahms]

phankao:

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.

Yamaha sells one, its about $40 plus for a small bottle. Otherwise, if you do not want to spend too much, you can buy Pledge from any supermarket, it does a great job too!

I just cannot stand the dust all over the piano, it does not help even with a full size piano cover, so always have those microfiber cloth beside the piano on standby mode

[phankao]

LovingBrahms:

phankao:

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.

Yamaha sells one, its about $40 plus for a small bottle. Otherwise, if you do not want to spend too much, you can buy Pledge from any supermarket, it does a great job too!

I just cannot stand the dust all over the piano, it does not help even with a full size piano cover, so always have those microfiber cloth beside the piano on standby mode

Yes, I have the microfiber cloth on standby. Pledge doesn't work for the wood of my current piano. It leaves weird streaks. So just simple polishing with microfiber cloth does it.

[rocklandpiano]

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