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| What Piano(s) Do You Own and Why?; Inquiring Minds | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Dec 1 2009, 03:01 PM (5,148 Views) | |
| kenny | Dec 1 2009, 08:54 PM Post #51 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Steinway won't let Kawai put ABS action parts into Boston pianos. Wood only. Another difference between Boston and Kawai. |
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| Axtremus | Dec 1 2009, 09:01 PM Post #52 |
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| Rainman | Dec 1 2009, 09:03 PM Post #53 |
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Fulla-Carp
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Kawai KG5 (is that right?) 5'8" nice piano, action was always lousy and always needed tech help. Sold it, sorry I did. . . 1980's M&H - POS, beat the hell out of it and killed it (graduate school). Sold it. Really, a piece of junk (Aeolian). Bought it because I LOVE old M&H pianos, and old restored Knabe. Current: Steinway Model C. Hate it. Not the piano's fault, it's mine, I have no time to practice or enjoy the instrument. Tuned maybe 3-4 years ago, large dust collector. So shoot me. . . |
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| kenny | Dec 1 2009, 09:07 PM Post #54 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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You have a C (drool) and you don't even bother tuning it? You've been a very bad boy!
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| Axtremus | Dec 1 2009, 09:09 PM Post #55 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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He said "shoot," not "whip." |
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| Luke's Dad | Dec 1 2009, 09:11 PM Post #56 |
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Depending on the mood, at any given time I can sit down at any number of Fazioli, Bechstein, Shigeru Kawai, regular ol Kawai, Schimmel, Vogel, W. Hoffman, Yamaha, Petrof, or Steinway pianos. There are some perks to doing what I do. Frankly, whenever I do find time to play, I find myself sitting at digital pianos working on arranging and scoring. |
| The problem with having an open mind is that people keep trying to put things in it. | |
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| brenda | Dec 1 2009, 09:12 PM Post #57 |
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Now, Kenny, if that pic is supposed to imply punishment, I don't think our Rainman may agree. |
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“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.” ~A.A. Milne | |
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| Rainman | Dec 1 2009, 09:30 PM Post #58 |
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Kenny. . . you scare me. Last time I had a tech here, he looked at me with the "what the Fvck is wrong with you" look i.e., how could you neglect this instrument. What can I say. It's a closed chapter from a previous life. |
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| LWpianistin | Dec 1 2009, 09:40 PM Post #59 |
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I have a digital unfortunately. It's good, but not a real piano. I can't afford a real one, and I have a small apartment. At my mom's house is a Wurlitzer spinet. Not bad, but the action is going. |
| And how are you today? | |
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| kenny | Dec 1 2009, 09:48 PM Post #60 |
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Yeah! How am I supposed to tune that.
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| kenny | Dec 1 2009, 09:49 PM Post #61 |
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Dude! At least get it tuned once a year so it stays somewhat stable. Some day it will be used again. |
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| Axtremus | Dec 1 2009, 09:59 PM Post #62 |
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By adjusting the resistors and capacitors hooked up to the crystal oscillator, silly. |
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| Larry | Dec 1 2009, 10:00 PM Post #63 |
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Mmmmmmm, pie!
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Steinway had nothing to do with it. Kawai wouldn't let them have the plastic parts. If Kawai would have let them have the parts, Bostons would have the parts, and Steinway would have created a marketing story about how the plastic was made to "Steinway specifications"... which I suppose would have been created by their (nonexistent) design department.... |
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Of the Pokatwat Tribe | |
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| kenny | Dec 1 2009, 10:07 PM Post #64 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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There you are. Will you fix Fine's list now? |
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| blondie | Dec 1 2009, 10:19 PM Post #65 |
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Bull-Carp
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A piano thread! How refreshing. I've a Sauter Delta, 6'1", about 5 yrs old. I bought it b/c of it's bass. Very smooth, kind of like cappuccino. I owned an Estonia, 5'6" prior. Lovely treble. This piano sang. Before that it was an 1890 Heinzman [sp?]. Nice case but OMG awful to play. Growing up, it was a 1960s-70s Rippen upright. I donated it last year. Looking at its case it looked like some Sauter uprights do now. Cool. The nicest pianos I've played were a new 7' Sauter and an huge wartime Bechstein. The Bechstein was restored. My God, I'll never forget it's sound: mocha-expresso b-e-a-u-ti-ful bass! I'd do anything for a piano like that. The Sauter had the clearest range of sound I'd heard. It sang. So seductive but I couldn't .. I didn't have the money for it. There are many nice pianos out there Patty. Remember, it's your heart you express with your music, and no matter what level you play at. Choose what will allow you to express yourself through your entire range of emotions. Not often talked about in buying threads, but being the touchy-feeling type I am, I believe this emotional aspect is so important. Good luck with it Patty. ![]() |
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| Red Rice | Dec 1 2009, 10:29 PM Post #66 |
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Yamaha CVP. Good for noodling around with, and easily transportable, which is important since I seem to move every two years or so. My parents have a Steinway. Passed down from my grandmother, but not maintained the way it should be; neither of my parents play currently, so it's just furniture except when I visit. |
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Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool. I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss! - Cecil Lewis | |
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| LWpianistin | Dec 1 2009, 10:36 PM Post #67 |
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| And how are you today? | |
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| blondie | Dec 1 2009, 10:42 PM Post #68 |
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Bull-Carp
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They're real to me. I like digitals. And they're versatile. Portable. Private. And for days I get drunk, I wanna noodle like a baroque wench on a harpsichord. |
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| kenny | Dec 1 2009, 10:43 PM Post #69 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Pics please. |
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| Larry | Dec 1 2009, 11:42 PM Post #70 |
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Mmmmmmm, pie!
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I had a harpsichord once.. couldn't play it, though.. it was baroque.. |
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| Larry | Dec 1 2009, 11:44 PM Post #71 |
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Mmmmmmm, pie!
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Well, for one I'd remove the 3 degrees of 1 that he constructed based on who kissed his ass the best. |
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| jon-nyc | Dec 2 2009, 01:33 AM Post #72 |
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Cheers
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I have a Bosendorfer 200 and a Yamaha Clavinova 230. I am quite happy with both of them. I bought them both new in 2005. |
| In my defense, I was left unsupervised. | |
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| Klaus | Dec 2 2009, 01:41 AM Post #73 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I have a Grotrian 189 (hello PianoDad!). Before that I had a Bechstein upright (I'm still in love with Bechstein uprights - their grand pianos: not so much). Before that I had several digital pianos (hated them) and a crappy East-European upright. Maybe I'll buy an August Förster grand piano some day. |
| Trifonov Fleisher Klaus Sokolov Zimmerman | |
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| Piano*Dad | Dec 2 2009, 03:42 AM Post #74 |
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Bull-Carp
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Klaus, I have heard the 189's are fabulous and sweet sounding pianos. I haven't played one myself. When did they switch the scale design to 192, I wonder. |
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| Piano*Dad | Dec 2 2009, 03:50 AM Post #75 |
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I remember Don Mannino (KawaiDon) the brave Kawai representative who still posts once in a while coming on PW to state emphatically in some sort of language like this, "that Steinway owns the designs, so they designed it, so just stop talking about it." The poor guy was so transparently unconvincing, but I had to feel for him. He just wanted that no-win issue to die away. I remember somebody else (who I cannot remember) saying something like, 'Yeah, five guys took a three day course on piano engineering and then doodled on some paper so that Kawai could go from there." |
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