They're easy to tune and temper, and respond to post-shipping voicing well. My technician had nothing but nice things to say about them. Not even Steinway can claim they do that. And how well it responds to me.Įvery Petrof, even the small studio upright they make, is made with a German Renner action, which is the same identical action you'll find in every high-end $50k+ piano. As a pianist, I'm all about the sound of the thing. It's the small touches that won me over to Petrof as a brand. However, I just wanted to know what to look out for while trying, because right now everything that people recommend is priced outside of our budget. I will obviously go and try out a bunch of things to figure out the sounds before we buy anything. I know that the sound quality/preferences depends on the individual musician. Is it really not possible to find a high-quality 6-foot grand (or close to this size) for around $20k? I would definitely like to believe that I suck at searching and that this is not the reality. (Since my sister and I are both in university, I don't think it's feasible for my parents to spend more than that.) I can't seem to find very much solid information about piano pricing online, and even the "high-quality pianos" of this size seem to be priced at twice our budget! This seems shocking to me. We have wide open space in our living room for a grand piano, and I've done some research online that suggests that it's not worth getting one that is significantly under 6' long.ĭo you have any recommendations for grand pianos that are around 5'7" to 6' long for a budget of ~$15k-$25k? I really miss that rich, quality sound that I get on the university pianos but cannot replicate on even a decent upright at home. My parents have finally realized that I'm serious about the piano, and we're in a better financial position now to invest in a solid grand piano than we were fifteen years ago. It took me about a year to fix some of my technique to work on the grand pianos at school, and now my upright performance is better, too. After years of playing on an upright, fighting against the action of a grand was a lot harder (also for some reason the keys seemed to be weighted more heavily). The first time I played on a grand piano was on a Steinway Model B at university, and man, it was hard to play. I grew up playing on an economical upright and various digital keyboards of questionable caliber. sort of) pianist, and I've been playing for eleven years now (I took lessons for the first nine of those years). I guess I have a more specific question that hasn't exactly been answered yet (or maybe my searching ability sucks?). Hi /r/piano! I'd like to preface this by saying I just spent thirty minutes carefully reading the sidebar as well as searching prior posts via the search tool. 'No Stupid Questions' thread (twice/month)ĮPierre's weekly composition/improvisation challenge IMSLP provides access to free, public domain sheet music. is a great website to learn the fundamentals of music theory. commenting on someone's appearance), and the like, are not welcome and will be removed. Off-topic posts, spam, advertising, blog posts with little contentĪlso, please do not submit more than 3-4 posts per week, and you should not have more than 2 posts on the front page.Ĭomments that contain personal attacks, hate speech, trolling, unnecessarily derogatory or inflammatory remarks or inappropriate remarks (e.g. Requests for transcriptions, identifying chords/notes in a song (use /r/transcribe), what song is this?, requests for sheet music (see FAQ, use /r/musicnotes, /r/transcribe)Ĭommon generic questions covered by the FAQ such as "What's a good keyboard?", "What's my piano worth?", "How do I get started?", unless your question has specific details. (use /r/musicpics, /r/classicalmemes or /r/pianomemes) Image memes, pictures of text, rage comics, etc. The following types of posts are subject to removal: Recording from a Digital Keyboard into a Computer read the FAQ Newest Comments | Participate! Piano Jam | 'No Stupid Questions' Welcome to /r/piano! Whether you're an absolute beginner or a seasoned professional, we hope you've come to talk about pianos.