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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Grainne who wrote (97127)	3/5/2005 9:40:29 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Young Chang is definitely a cheaper piano and I would say it is very inferior to what I would like to own-- a Yamaha or Steinway or if I were to be wildly ambitious a Bosendorfer with an extended bass. And there is a new development in pianos now that I would consider-- it's designed at 7/8 scale to a regular piano, allowing people with small hands (like me) to be able to do passages that are very difficult without big machomanhands. My son can easily play an interval of a 12th- he has enormous hands- while I am unable to do more than a ninth and even that is painful with my arthritis. They aren't really making them yet, but you can get your regular piano retrofitted for a few thousand. Not that I would waste that on my YC. Kawai is very popular. It's more affordable, has a long track record, and is highly thought of as far as I know-- which isn't really very much. I think that piano preference is pretty subjective. Like Ion likes a light touch and I prefer one with a harder action. Some are so light that if you brush the keys, they sound. I like to have to dig some. Problems arise because the touch can vary from note to note (complex stuff about weights and hammers and ratios that I don't understand) and it becomes really hard to get a consistent even tone across the board. I have had my piano voiced (they mess with the felts) a couple of times, and that has helped the tone. A really, really wonderful read about music and pianos and life in Paris is The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier by Thad Carhart. I am always recommending this book; it was one of those pure delights even if you aren't a musician.