Getting rid of a piano.

That's why god invented the Dremel... It only takes a few moments to run across the lot with a cutoff disk. If only I had thought of using an angle grinder!

Andy.

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Andrew Macphail
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There goes the electric guitar then. Heaven knows how it made it this far. Maybe what kids need is a decent instrument and a sound that inspires them - and lord knows I've seen my fair share of clunky old uprights gathering dust simply because they're as uninspiring to play as a cheese banjo.

Regards,

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Stephen Howard

A good digital piano isn't an 'every note perfect thing'. In simplistic terms you take a recording of an acoustic piano ( Bosendorfer, Steinway et al ) and trigger it on a 'per note' basis, thus reproducing the typical sound ( usually defined by the frame design ), warts and all. You might be thinking of an 'electronic keyboard', in which the sounds are synthesized - a completely different beast.

Good though many a budget keyboard is these days, the realistic benchmark for a basic good digital piano is around the £500 mark. The general consensus is that there are Yamaha digital pianos, and everything else - and while this is perhaps a little on the 'one size fits all' side, it's nonetheless a good starting point when choosing an instrument.

Anyway, if anyone wants info on such things - including how to get rid of an old upright - try here:

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Stephen Howard

I think it's fair to say that I've played at some pretty spectacular gigs over the years - and a piano has been required at most of them. It's nearly always been a digital one. YMMV.

Mind you, there was that time we tried to use a grand...

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Stephen Howard

The electric guitar is an instrument in its own right. Unless you actually think it sounds like an acoustic one?

That's a totally different argument.

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Dave Plowman (News)

Of course. The difficulty of transporting a real piano has been mentioned

- and then there's the small matter of getting an output from it to feed to the PA. In other words, exactly the reason the 'electric piano' was invented.

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Dave Plowman (News)

Mainly because it makes a lot of noise with minimal effort, and requires endless accessories. Kids should listen to Jimi Hendrix and Segovia.

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stuart noble

good grief, it isn't hard..every time I hear Clarkson say 'its got 300 torques' I cringe...

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The Natural Philosopher

You are an old fart as I have said. Just because it doesn't look like a piano is enough to make you claim it isn't a piano. Tell the musicians that play electric violins that they aren't violins. Its you that is wrong here not I.

If you think my logic is wrong you are going to have to explain it, you can't BTW as its you that's wrong.

So you can't understand plain English then?

I won't for you, it was plain enough the first time.

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dennis

That isn't an insult. It is a statement. I will assume anyone that has the stupidity to think a producer of a TV program knows anything about bridges is, well, thick. Also if he had seen the program he would know it wasn't a suspension bridge, unless he is thick.

Sod off! Who invited you to dribble here? That is an insult BTW.

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dennis

Does that mean they sound better? Not IMO.

Have you heard a Yamaha baby grand yet?

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dennis

So is an electric piano. Just because someone doesn't like digital pianos doesn't make them cr@p. It just makes them an old fart.

When electric guitars came out there will have been the same old farts saying it isn't music, it sounds cr@p, etc. just as the old farts say digital pianos aren't real and sound worse than "real" pianos. Just as they said the same when harpsichords were around.

If it were left to the old farts we would still be living in mud^W caves as there is always an old fart that thinks something new is wrong.

Lets stick geoff in Dudley town hall with his upright and my daughter with her Korg and a few hundred people (yes she has done that) and see which gets the best response.

Reply to
dennis

For sure, but I was referring to the sort of gigs where there's somewhere to land your helicopter behind the stage and every bit of kit's on a rolling palett ;)

Regards,

Reply to
Stephen Howard

Sure it is, but it isn't musical typewriting.

Not if you're a kid sat at a clunky old upright.

Regards,

Reply to
Stephen Howard

How about Joe Pass, Bill Frisell, Wes Montgomery...maximum effort, not much noise.

Regards,

Reply to
Stephen Howard

They don't sound like violins either...

I'd suggest you get yourself away from your electronic devices and try listing to the real thing. You may not like it as much - your prerogative

- but at least you should hear the difference.

Reply to
Dave Plowman (News)

Producers of TV progs don't need to be an expert on their subject. They should employ others who are.

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Dave Plowman (News)

'Better' is a subjective term. With musical instruments.

If you asked expert pianists I doubt you'd find any who preferred the sound of a computer to a real instrument. Except for specific uses.

I helped choose a real Yamaha grand for the recording studio at a place I used to work at.

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Dave Plowman (News)

And fix it and tune it, of course. Which can be very difficult to do at many gigs - even where money is no object.

You don't transport a Strad. along with the music stands. ;-)

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Dave Plowman (News)

I didn't say it was. Nor agree with the statement.

I'm just saying an electric piano doesn't sound like a real one - anymore than an electric guitar sounds like an acoustic one, or a drum generator sound like a drum kit. However much place they may have in modern music. I'm not even saying I don't like them.

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Dave Plowman (News)

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